T. S. Eliot Quotes

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

Life's true face is the skull.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

I always know I can die at any moment.

We're all going to die.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

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

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

No one gets out of here alive.

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

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.