T. S. Eliot Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
  I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

  T. S. Eliot

  Tired, Dying, Mortality

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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".

• The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Dream, Twilight

  "Ash-Wednesday" l. 188 (1930)

• He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

  T. S. Eliot

  Patience, Dying, Littles

  1922 The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

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