T. S. Eliot Way Quotations

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

People find a way in which they can say something.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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