Bryant McGill Quotes on Death
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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.'
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Life: 'Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.'
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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.'
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Life: 'Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.'
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To each and every living thing The call of life will enthrall, From the mysteries, up we spring, Then to them back we fall
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Sins are not the worst, And goodness not the best But love is ever living And death eternal rest.
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For leaves and men the same Our time is frail and brief, Cruelty has not been tamed Nor fairness worth belief