813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it’s not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor – And this, and so much more? -.

Each way means loneliness – and communion.

You have gone through life in sleep, Never woken to the nightmare. I tell you, life would be unendurable If you were wide awake.

The journey not the arrival matters.

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..

Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.

Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.

Half 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 [that they cause] does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.