Quotes from T. S. Eliot

Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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.

Home is where one starts from.

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.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

In life there is not time to grieve long.

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.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

Where is the Life we lost in living?

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.