William Butler Yeats Quotes

All things are only transitory.

No blessing lasts forever.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Time is not kind to everything.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Ephemeral should be the default.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

That's kind of just the nature of our business, is that you're really putting a lot of energy and time and care into something that isn't necessarily going to last forever.

Life is like this: things come and go.

I think everything is temporary.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Prettiness dies first.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.