T. S. Eliot

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

T. S. Eliot

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T. S. Eliot

I’ve been born, and once is enough.

T. S. Eliot

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable.

T. S. Eliot

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

T. S. Eliot

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

In life there is not time to grieve long.

T. S. Eliot

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

T. S. Eliot