Four Quartets Quotes

You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure, that time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.

You are the music while the music lasts.

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.

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.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

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

In my beginning is my end.

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.

Home is where one starts from.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.

Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.