This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - T. S. Eliot
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. - T. S. Eliot
Human kind cannot bear much reality. - T. S. Eliot
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. - T. S. Eliot
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. - T. S. Eliot
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. - T. S. Eliot
In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse. - T. S. Eliot
We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time - T. S. Eliot
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. - T. S. Eliot
We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - T. S. Eliot
Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot
It is impossible to say just what I mean! - T. S. Eliot
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot
You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. - T. S. Eliot
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T. S. Eliot
We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. - T. S. Eliot