Quote #131
The moment of sudden loathing And the season of stifled sorrow The whisper, the transparent deception The keeping up of appearances The making the best of a bad job All twined and tangled together, all are recorded.
More from Thomas Stearns Eliot
- To rest in your own suffering Is evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.
- There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything
- It is only when they see nothing That people can always show the suitable emotions - And so far as they feel at all, their emotions are sui…
- Everything is true in a different sense, A sense that would have seemed meaningless before. Everything tends towards reconciliation As a st…
- Pain is the opposite of joy, but joy is a kind of pain I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the seaso…
- Accident is design And design is accident In a cloud of unknowing.
- It's all a delusion, Everything you feel - I don't mean what you think, But what you feel. You attach yourself to loathing As others do to …
- Harry has crossed the frontier Beyond which safety and danger have a different meaning. And he cannot return. That is his privilege.