--- title: "18 Way Quotes By T. S. Eliot" description: "18 Way quotes by T. S. Eliot. Plus more from T. S. Eliot and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/t-s-eliot-633_complicated_finding-a-way-to-live-the-simple-life-is_379571.png" --- > [Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/finding-a-way-to-live-the-simple-life-is-one-of-life-s-supreme/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/t-s-eliot-633_complicated_finding-a-way-to-live-the-simple-life-is_379571.png) > [In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/in-order-to-possess-what-you-do-not-possess-you-must-go-by-the-way-of/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c61/t-s-eliot-633_dispossession_in-order-to-possess-what-you-do-not-poss_2498200.png) > [Each way means loneliness -- and communion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/each-way-means-loneliness-and-communion/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8d/t-s-eliot-633_communion_each-way-means-loneliness-and-communion_1648172.png) > [Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/death-has-a-hundred-hands-and-walks-by-a-thousand-ways/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0dc/t-s-eliot-633_death_death-has-a-hundred-hands-and-walks-by-a_2187205.png) > [This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87f/t-s-eliot-633_apocalypse_this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-not-with_322953.png) > [People find a way in which they can say something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/people-find-a-way-in-which-they-can-say-something/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/t-s-eliot-633_inspirational_people-find-a-way-in-which-they-can-say_508557.png) > [Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/writing-every-day-is-a-way-of-keeping-the-engine-running-and-then/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46d/t-s-eliot-633_engines_writing-every-day-is-a-way-of-keeping-th_1898004.png) > [Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/neither-way-is-better-both-ways-are-necessary-it-is-also-necessary-to/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbd/t-s-eliot-633_choice_neither-way-is-better-both-ways-are-nece_1106034.png) > [The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-hippopotamus-s-day-is-passed-in-sleep-at-night-he-hunts-god-works/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/969/t-s-eliot-633_church_the-hippopotamus-s-day-is-passed-in-slee_2310215.png) > [A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/a-cold-coming-we-had-of-it-just-the-worst-time-of-the-year-for-a-2/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78c/t-s-eliot-633_cold_a-cold-coming-we-had-of-it-just-the-wors_3073463.png) > [You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/you-must-not-on-any-account-give-me-credit-for-being-penetrating-i/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/010/t-s-eliot-633_accounts_you-must-not-on-any-account-give-me-cred_2498382.jpg) > [To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/to-arrive-where-you-are-to-get-from-where-you-are-not-you-must-go-by/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16f/t-s-eliot-633_arrive_to-arrive-where-you-are-to-get-from-wher_1365458.png) > [No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/no-generation-is-interested-in-art-in-quite-the-same-way-as-any-other/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/487/t-s-eliot-633_appreciation_no-generation-is-interested-in-art-in-qu_3067808.png) > [So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/so-far-as-we-are-human-what-we-do-must-be-either-evil-or-good-so-far/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0aa/t-s-eliot-633_evil_so-far-as-we-are-human-what-we-do-must-b_2239286.png) > [The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-only-way-of-expressing-emotion-in-the-form-of-art-is-by-finding/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/632/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-only-way-of-expressing-emotion-in-th_251922.png) > [That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/that-was-my-way-of-putting-it-not-very-satisfactory-a-periphrastic/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b48/t-s-eliot-633_education_that-was-my-way-of-putting-it-not-very-s_808929.png) > [Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/trying-to-use-words-and-every-attempt-is-a-wholly-new-start-and-a/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c30/t-s-eliot-633_different_trying-to-use-words-and-every-attempt-is_922813.jpg) > [A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/a-wrong-attitude-towards-nature-implies-somewhere-a-wrong-attitude/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/727/t-s-eliot-633_attitude_a-wrong-attitude-towards-nature-implies_2521255.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by T. S. Eliot > [The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-nobel-is-a-ticket-to-one-s-own-funeral-no-one-has-ever-done/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/dear-mother-i-am-getting-on-nicely-in-my-work-at-the-bank-and-like-it/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/for-love-would-be-love-of-the-wrong-thing-there-is-yet-faith-but-the/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [We must always take risks. That is our destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-must-always-take-risks-that-is-our-destiny/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/all-significant-truths-are-private-truths-as-they-become-public-they/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/when-forced-to-work-within-a-strict-framework-the-imagination-is/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/honest-criticism-and-sensitive-appreciation-are-directed-not-upon-the/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/desire-itself-is-movement-not-in-itself-desirable-love-is-itself/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [ the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. \[He\] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic-irregular-fragmentary-he/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-had-the-experience-but-we-missed-the-meaning/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [The end is in the beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-end-is-in-the-beginning/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/you-have-learned-enough-to-see-that-cats-are-much-like-you-and-me/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-good-poet-welds-his-theft-into-a-whole-of-feeling-which-is-unique/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/it-s-strange-that-words-are-so-inadequate-yet-like-the-asthmatic/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/every-end-is-a-beginning-and-every-beginning-is-an-end/) [T. S. 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