More From William Butler Yeats
- "Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."
- "Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
- "I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’"
More In Time
- "Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all."― Woody Allen
- "To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."― Susan Sontag
- "I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."― H. G. Wells