Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. T. S. Eliot fake-peoplepeacelife I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. T. S. Eliot meditationhopewaiting Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third. T. S. Eliot dividesthirdsworld The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. T. S. Eliot adventuresciencetravel The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. T. S. Eliot prayerchristianbelieve Survival is your strength not your shame. T. S. Eliot shamesurvival Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot informationtechnologyknowledge To make an end is to make a beginning. T. S. Eliot ends If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper. T. S. Eliot bangsendswriting Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. T. S. Eliot poetryfeelingsmay It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot strangestrugglelove In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not. T. S. Eliot quartetsorderway Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot communicationpoetrywriting Between the vision and the act lies the shadow. T. S. Eliot visionshadowlying Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of T. S. Eliot adventurepeoplethinking Old men ought to be explorers. T. S. Eliot explorersold-manmen Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow T. S. Eliot realityideasfall Humor is also a way of saying something serious. T. S. Eliot humorousfunnyway In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings. T. S. Eliot mindfeelingsrooms 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. T. S. Eliot egowarreality
