Famous Quotes by TS Eliot

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with…

— TS Eliot

And upside down in air were towers Tolling reminiscent bells, thatkept the hours And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

— TS Eliot

In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dream-crossed twilight between birth and dying Ash Wednesday.

— TS Eliot

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another voice.

— TS Eliot

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards.

— TS Eliot

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

— TS Eliot

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

— TS Eliot

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

— TS Eliot

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

— TS Eliot

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

— TS Eliot

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

— TS Eliot

“Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow”

— TS Eliot