Top 70 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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

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.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.