T. S. Eliot Quotes, Class Quotes, Desperate Quotes

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

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My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

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The work of creation is never without travail.

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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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