T. S. Eliot Inspirational Quotations

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.

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

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.

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

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.