Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
T. S. Eliot
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Lyricist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Social Critic
St. Louis
Missouri
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Eliot
T S Eliot
Thomas Eliot
T.S. Eliot
Walks
Crazy
Headlong
Precipice
Running
Opposite
Whole
Opposites
World
Direction
Towards
Looked
More quotes by T. S. Eliot
No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.
T. S. Eliot
Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.
T. S. Eliot
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
T. S. Eliot
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
T. S. Eliot
In the end is my beginning.
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 the science of money while I am at it it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.
T. S. Eliot
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T. S. Eliot
For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
T. S. Eliot
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
T. S. Eliot
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
T. S. Eliot
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
T. S. Eliot
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
T. S. Eliot
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
T. S. Eliot
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.
T. S. Eliot
I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
T. S. Eliot
The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
T. S. Eliot
Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
T. S. Eliot
If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable
T. S. Eliot
Art is the escape from personality.
T. S. Eliot
