Life Quotes Quote by T.S. Eliot — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?”

“There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.”

“Time present and time past”

“I think we are in rats’ alley”

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”

“So I find words I never thought to speak”

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”

“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language”

“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.”

“Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off”

“Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?”

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”