"yet it seemsLife scarce can cast a..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
yet it seemsLife scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,But the torn petals strew the garden plot;And there's but common greenness after that.
More by William Butler Yeats
“An age is the reversal of an age:When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,We lived like men that watch a painted stage.What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:It had not touched our lives.”
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”
“From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.”
More on Transience
“You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.”
“Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.”
“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
More on Life
“Life has a way of demanding that you live it.”
“I am sure care's an enemy to life.”
“Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.”