The best Quotes by T. S. Eliot (2025)

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.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

...and i knew nothing,
looking into the heart of light, the silence.

The Waste Land

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

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

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

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

I finally got lucky in love when I met Rosie here. She was discussing T.S. Eliot, and I was discussing... I still don't know what she was talking about!

Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man - 2

Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Memory, all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

When the day's hustle and bustle is done
Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun

Cats

Cats

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

Charles Dickens

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

David Bailey

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

Louis Bayard - Mr. Timothy

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Boris Johnson

Ethel: "One day the entire family will be reunited in the Garden of Eden."
"Oh, like heaven?"
Ethel: "No, it's in Missouri."
"Oh. Eden's got a lot of methheads."

Shameless - Season 2 Episode 5

Did you know only one US president has been born in Missouri?
It's true, man.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Missouri - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

When you look in her eyes and she's looking back in yours, everything feels not quite normal, because you feel stronger and weaker at the same time. You feel excited and at the same time, terrified. The truth is, you don't know what you feel except you know what kind of man you want to be. It's as if you've reached the unreachable and you weren't ready for it.

Peter Parker in Spider-Man

Love should never be a secret. If you keep something as complicated as love stored up inside, it could make you sick.

Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man - 2

Parker... now I remember you. You're Dr. Connor's student. He tells me you're brilliant. He also tells me you're lazy.

Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man - 2

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Yuk Je in 1899 - Season 1 Episode 1

In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Jay-Z

You'll never see a Lamborghini commercial in TV again. People who are able to afford a Lamborghini have better things to do than watching TV.

Ferruccio Lamborghini

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Dory in Finding Nemo

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist.

Denise Levertov

I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.

Kiersten White in The Chaos of Stars

Act on inspiration when it strikes.

Hwei, the Visionary in League of Legends

Creativity is limitless - for better or worse.

Hwei, the Visionary in League of Legends

April is a gentle reminder for not having done a single thing from your new year resolution for three months and not doing any for the next nine.

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

Your laugh is the reason your parents never tickled you growing up.

Katherine Ryan - The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year 2024