T. S. Eliot Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Dance, Recovery

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

• This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Poetry, Religion

  "The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Different, Birth

  "Journey of the Magi" l. 35 (1927)

• Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Death, Dying

  Sweeney Agonistes (1932)

• Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Running, Laughter

• It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Years, Dying

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1133, Faber & Faber

• It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Dying, Life Is

  "The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot".

• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Eye, Hands

• My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Death, Light

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Skulls, Skins

  "Whispers of Immortality" l. 1 (1919)

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Communication, Fire

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 1 (1942)

• Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Hands, Way

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Murder in the Cathedral”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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