T. S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.

T. S. Eliot

They know and do not know, what it is to act or suffer. They know and do not know, that acting is suffering.

T. S. Eliot

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

T. S. Eliot

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

T. S. Eliot

Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.

T. S. Eliot

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

T. S. Eliot

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

T. S. Eliot

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

T. S. Eliot

We must learn to suffer more.

T. S. Eliot

What we know of other people’s only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

T. S. Eliot