T. S. Eliot Quotes

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Anything that consoles is fake.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Disillusion is the last illusion.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.

Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.