Truth Quote by W.B. Yeats — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The last stroke of midnight dies.”

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep”

“The Coming of Wisdom with Time”

“Fellow-wanderer,”

“But he calls down a blessing on the blossom of the may,”

“I balanced all, brought all to mind,”

“I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.”

“Money and religion are perfect alloy.”

“It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.”

“It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one.”

“Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”