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Life Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
- But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men…
- For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so…
- War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
- My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
- It is worth dying to find out what life is.
- The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.
- It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
- At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I…
- 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…
- Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life…
- In the life of one man, never The same time returns.
- A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time…
- In life there is not time to grieve long.
- We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for…
- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost…
- It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to…
- I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
- You are the music while the music lasts.
- 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…
- The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
- As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel…
- To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to…
- Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle