"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."
― William Butler Yeats
Topic(s):
Death
More From William Butler Yeats
- "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."
- "But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
- "I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age."
More In Death
- "There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."― Albert Camus
- "I’m not in favor of the death penalty. But I’m in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else."― John Grisham
- "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."― Khalil Gibran