William Butler Yeats Quotes

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

We live because of the dreams.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I write about living, not dying.

I have a very vivid imagination.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

The living are more important than the dead.

I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.