T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 3

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• In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

  T. S. Eliot

  Order, Way, Quartets

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral”, p.96, LUMEN

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• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Science

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

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• Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Success, Failure, Entrepreneur

  Family Reunion (1939) pt. 2, sc. 3

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• The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

  T. S. Eliot

  Vanity, Doubt, Majority

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ignorance

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• Survival is your strength not your shame.

  T. S. Eliot

  Survival, Shame

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• Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

  T. S. Eliot

  Negative, Nasty

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• Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Want, What You Want

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• To make an end is to make a beginning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ends

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

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• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Spring, Rain

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

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• A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Creation, Wrong Attitude

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lonely, People, Laughing

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• The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

  T. S. Eliot

  Rocks, Church, Failing

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.524, Faber & Faber

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• Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Vision, Shadow

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• Do I dare disturb the universe?

  T. S. Eliot

  Fear, Clever, Dare

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 45 (1917)

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• It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Struggle, Strange

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.574, Faber & Faber

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• Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Thirds, Divides

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• The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Definitions, Hell

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• We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, People, Enough

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Music, Fear

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• There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Family, Vocabulary

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• Talent imitates, genius steals.

  T. S. Eliot

  Genius, Talent, Stealing

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• The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

  T. S. Eliot

  Circles, Understanding, Areas

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

  T. S. Eliot

  Exercise, People, Influence

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

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