T. S. Eliot Quotes

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"

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

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

No art is possible without a dance with death.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different points in different people's lives, and obviously there are lots of people who experience the presence of death much more keenly and much earlier than I did. But we all come to grips with it eventually.