T. S. Eliot Quotes

We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.

You know what they say - love is blind.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.

Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Love is blind, you just see bright light

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.

The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.

Love is the force that makes us fully human.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.

Everybody knows what love is in one way or another, and everybody has an answer of what love means to them.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.