86 Quotations by T. S. Eliot
- 61. The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
- 62. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
- 63. The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye ...
- 64. The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
- 65. There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for ...
- 66. There is no method but to be very intelligent.
- 67. There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has al ...
- 68. Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generatio ...
- 69. This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.
- 70. Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always p ...
- 71. To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is eno ...
- 72. War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
- 73. We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, nor to fight with beasts as ...
- 74. We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test o ...
- 75. We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ...
- 76. We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none t ...
- 77. We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither ...
- 78. We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we star ...
- 79. What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.
- 80. What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is w ...
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