Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot atheismkindnessreality The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. T. S. Eliot harderlabormen If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.' T. S. Eliot mommotherfunny Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. T. S. Eliot poetrytimeinspirational The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less. T. S. Eliot talentage I've been born, and once is enough. T. S. Eliot bornenough The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it. T. S. Eliot rolespersonalityart Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. T. S. Eliot libertyfreedompain I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. T. S. Eliot readingwinternight There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. T. S. Eliot agemenworld i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace. T. S. Eliot fear-of-deathdustabsence Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. T. S. Eliot thymemeditationwaiting Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs. T. S. Eliot gindrugdrinking He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon. T. S. Eliot namesfacesfirsts The winter evening settles down T. S. Eliot smellwinterfood Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them. T. S. Eliot choicesway Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject. T. S. Eliot motherwantinteresting I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. T. S. Eliot loathingefficiencyadmiration He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it T. S. Eliot finemindideas It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. T. S. Eliot rebellionknow-howwise
