“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.”
– T. S. Eliot
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
– T. S. Eliot
“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
– T. S. Eliot
“This love is silent.”
– T. S. Eliot
“Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.”
– T. S. Eliot
“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
– T. S. Eliot
“It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.”
– T. S. Eliot
“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 stagnates.”
– T. S. Eliot
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
– T. S. Eliot
“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
– T. S. Eliot
“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”
– T. S. Eliot
“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.”
– T. S. Eliot