T. S. Eliot Quotes

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

Time for the world to end.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.

One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.

Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.