Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Achievement Quotes, Fear Quotes, Mankind Quotes

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

In my end is my beginning.

In my end is my beginning.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right...

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right...

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart...

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart...

I might not be where I want to be, but thank God I'm not where...

I might not be where I want to be, but thank God I'm not where...

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?