Quotes by T. S. Eliot

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Home is where one starts from.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.