William Butler Yeats Quotes

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

William Butler Yeats

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• Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.

  

  Randy West
  • Game
  • Joy
  • Always

• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Joy

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Opportunities

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Woman

• When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Joy
  • Forward
  • Meeting

• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Journey

• Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Tragedy
  • Greek
  • Ending

• I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • People
  • Trust
  • Tragedy

• There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Friend

• Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Mind
  • May

• A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Begin

• The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Joy
  • Tragedy
  • Periods