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T. S. Eliot Quotes about Death

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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Dying, Life Is
"The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot".

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Different, Birth
"Journey of the Magi" l. 35 (1927)

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Poetry, Religion
"The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Dance, Recovery
Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Years, Dying
T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1133, Faber & Faber

Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Running, Laughter

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T. S. Eliot
Life, Death, Dying
Sweeney Agonistes (1932)

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Hands, Way
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Murder in the Cathedral”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

T. S. Eliot
Life, Death, Light
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Skulls, Skins
"Whispers of Immortality" l. 1 (1919)

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Communication, Fire
Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 1 (1942)

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Eye, Hands

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