T. S. Eliot Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“You are the music while the music lasts.”

“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”

“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”

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

“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”

“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”