William Butler Yeats Quotes

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

I accept the universe!

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

He that begins to live, begins to die.

We die, because we live.

Books are not life, only its ashes.

No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

If we look on heaven and earth as a single crucible, and on the creator as the founder, would there be any place I could not go? When it is time, I will fall asleep, and when the right time comes, I will wake up again.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.

Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.