Atheism Quote by T. S. Eliot

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

— 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…

— 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…

— T. S. Eliot

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

— 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…

— 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,…

— T. S. Eliot

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— 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…

— 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…

— T. S. Eliot

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

— T. S. Eliot

The end is in the beginning.

— T. S. Eliot

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

— T. S. Eliot