"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
― T. S. Eliot
Topic(s): Time
More From T. S. Eliot
- "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."
- "All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords."
- "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
More In Time
- "To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead."― Og Mandino
- "How can a doctor judge a woman’s sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination."― Nellie Bly
- "The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."― Simone Weil