Top 500 T. S. Eliot Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

— T. S. Eliot

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2. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.”

— T. S. Eliot

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3. “The journey, not the destination, matters...”

— T. S. Eliot

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4. “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

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

— T. S. Eliot

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6. “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

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7. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

— T. S. Eliot

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8. “If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.”

— T. S. Eliot

9. “Do I dare disturb the universe?”

— T. S. Eliot

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10. “You are the music while the music lasts.”

— T. S. Eliot

11. “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

— T. S. Eliot

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12. “April is the cruellest month.”

— T. S. Eliot

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13. “Hurry up, please, it’s time.”

— T. S. Eliot

14. “No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”

— T. S. Eliot

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15. “The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”

— T. S. Eliot

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16. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.”

— T. S. Eliot

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17. “If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

— T. S. Eliot

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18. “At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”

— T. S. Eliot

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19. “Distracted from distraction by distraction.”

— T. S. Eliot

20. “Survival is your strength, not your shame.”

— T. S. Eliot

21. “So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

— T. S. Eliot

22. “Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”

— T. S. Eliot

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23. “To make an end is to make a beginning.”

— T. S. Eliot

24. “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

— T. S. Eliot

25. “Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.”

— T. S. Eliot

26. “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”

— T. S. Eliot

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

— T. S. Eliot

28. “Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky.”

— T. S. Eliot

29. “If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.”

— T. S. Eliot

30. “When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.”

— T. S. Eliot

31. “We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Learning together.”

— T. S. Eliot

32. “If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”

— T. S. Eliot

33. “If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.”

— T. S. Eliot

34. “At the beach – time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.”

— T. S. Eliot

35. “The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.”

— T. S. Eliot

36. “At the still point, there the dance is.”

— T. S. Eliot

37. “Home is where one starts from.”

— T. S. Eliot

38. “Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life’s supreme complications.”

— T. S. Eliot

39. “The darkness declares the glory of the light.”

— T. S. Eliot

40. “Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.”

— T. S. Eliot

41. “Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

— T. S. Eliot

42. “My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.”

— T. S. Eliot

43. “Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.”

— T. S. Eliot

44. “Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”

— T. S. Eliot

45. “Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.”

— T. S. Eliot

46. “In my beginning is my end.”

— T. S. Eliot

47. “And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

— T. S. Eliot

48. “In the mountains, there you feel free.”

— T. S. Eliot

49. “Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.”

— T. S. Eliot

50. “We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.”

— T. S. Eliot