T. S. Eliot Death Quotations

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

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

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.

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

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

It is worth dying to find out what life is.

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.