• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

T. S. Eliot

Related Topics

DeepLove

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More T. S. Eliot Quotes

• 

  Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

  T. S. ELIOT
  AcceptancePast
• 

  Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

  T. S. ELIOT
  MessSuccess
• 

  You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. ELIOT
  LastMusicYourself
• 

  Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  T. S. ELIOT
  BeyondEscapeExperience
• 

  There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

  T. S. ELIOT
  DeepFamilyLightLoveSeeSilenceTalk
• 

  There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

  T. S. ELIOT
  FearFeelingGriefMusic
• 

  Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  T. S. ELIOT
  FailureWriting
• 

  Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

  T. S. ELIOT
  DeathDeepLifeMan
• 

  So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

  T. S. ELIOT
  BodyMyselfTalkThinkingWord
• 

  Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. ELIOT
  KnowledgeLifeLiveLostWisdom
• 

  I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

  T. S. ELIOT
  MyselfSeaSilence
• 

  Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

  T. S. ELIOT
  DecisionTimeVisionYourself
• 

  Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

  T. S. ELIOT
  HumanityReality
• 

  We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

  T. S. ELIOT
  BookEnoughPeopleReading
• 

  This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

  T. S. ELIOT
  JoyMomentsOneselfPain
• 

  The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. ELIOT
  ActGreatnessReasonRightWrong