T. S. Eliot Quotes

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

The goal of all life is death.

Death is a very important part of life.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Don't die until you're dead.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.

I love life more than I love death.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

Death is Life's high meed.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.