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The Cocktail Party Quotes

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. - T. S. Eliot (The Cocktail Party Quotes)

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.

Source:(ed. Faber & Faber, 1950), Act I, Scene 3, Page 87
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T. S. Eliot - The Cocktail Party Quotes
  • Book: The Cocktail Party
  • Writer: T. S. Eliot
  • Genre: Plays
  • Published: 1950
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