William Butler Yeats Quotes

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

To live is to die.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Birth was the death of him.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

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

Death is a very important part of life.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.