William Butler Yeats Quotes

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.

Life is short, but the years are long.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Life is but a day at most.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

... we each have our fleeting hour.