If you havenโt the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. EliotHell 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.
T. S. EliotThat meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
T. S. EliotIf we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
T. S. EliotBetween the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.
T. S. EliotBut it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?
T. S. Eliot