Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks;
Birth, copulation and death.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. EliotSource:Sweeney Agonistes
Link to full quote: Quote #1985 from Sweeney Agonistes by T.S. Eliot.
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. EliotSource:After Strange Gods
Link to full quote: Quote #1990 from After Strange Gods by T.S. Eliot.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.I do not think that they will sing to me.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. Eliot
Link to full quote: Quote #1716 from The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.
There are several attitudes towards Christmas,
Some of which we may disregard:
The social, the torpid, the patently commercial,
The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight),
And the childish - which is not that of the child
For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel
Spreading its wings at the summit of the tree
Is not only a decoration, but an angel.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. Eliot
Link to full quote: Quote #1634 from The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T.S. Eliot.
THEY are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.The brown waves of fog toss up to me 5
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. EliotSource:Morning at the Window
Link to full quote: Quote #1569 from Morning at the Window by T.S. Eliot.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. EliotSource:Little Gidding V, Four Quartets
Link to full quote: Quote #835 from Little Gidding V, Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. EliotSource:The Hollow Men
Link to full quote: Quote #39 from The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot.
Or when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious
of nothing-
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without
love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the
waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the
dancing.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. EliotSource:East Coker
Link to full quote: Quote #40 from East Coker by T.S. Eliot.
My life is light, waiting for the death wind,
Like a feather on the back of my hand.
Dust in sunlight and memory in corners
Wait for the wind that chills towards the dead land.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. EliotSource:A Song For Simeon
Link to full quote: Quote #41 from A Song For Simeon by T.S. Eliot.
What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:T.S. EliotSource:The Cocktail Party
Link to full quote: Quote #42 from The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot.
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Tears For FearsSource:Mad World
Link to full quote: Quote #1528 from Mad World by Tears For Fears.
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Tears For FearsSource:Mad World
Link to full quote: Quote #877 from Mad World by Tears For Fears.
I flip on the television
And watch sad movies
And look for sad sick people like me
You call me up, and let me know that
That my sick guilt is so unwelcome.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Tegan and SaraSource:I Hear Noises
Link to full quote: Quote #1123 from I Hear Noises by Tegan and Sara.
So scared that all my feelings
They up and leave me
I got so city girl on you
I go so crazy I don't know what to do.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Tegan and SaraSource:City Girl
Link to full quote: Quote #1124 from City Girl by Tegan and Sara.
I won't scream in my head
And let it isolate me.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Tegan and SaraSource:I Won't Be Left
Link to full quote: Quote #1125 from I Won't Be Left by Tegan and Sara.
