813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

I’ve been born, and once is enough.

What we know of other people’s only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? 360 When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman – But who is that on the other side of you?

Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

And in short, I was afraid.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century’s prostitution.

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.

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.