7 Bryant McGill Quotes on Death

Bryant McGill quotes on death

26. Death: 'I have watched life's light flicker, and at once fade from their eyes as they passed from this world. I have sat silent and frightened, with tears streaming from my eyes as I tried to grasp some salient thought about the absence of their breath. I have collected stories from these people, many of whom exist only as a memory in my mind, and a sentiment in my poetry.'

59. Life: 'Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.'

62. Death: 'Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.'

109. Life: 'Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.'

132. To each and every living thing The call of life will enthrall, From the mysteries, up we spring, Then to them back we fall

133. Sins are not the worst, And goodness not the best But love is ever living And death eternal rest.

134. For leaves and men the same Our time is frail and brief, Cruelty has not been tamed Nor fairness worth belief