Quotes from T. S. Eliot

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

War among men defiles this world.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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

We shall not cease from exploration

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

How wild it was, to let it be.

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.