T. S. Eliot Quotes
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.
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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
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Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
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Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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Who is the third who walks always beside you When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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Mr. Aldous Huxley, who is perhaps one of those people who have to perpetrate thirty bad novels before producing a good one, has a certain natural - but little developed - aptitude for seriousness.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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In my beginning is my end.