Waste land Quotes

“There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.”

“We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.”

“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”

“Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.”

“Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.”

“Kill if you will, but command me nothing!’ the gunslinger roared. ‘You have forgotten the faces of those who made you!”

“To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite?”

“This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—”