Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

It is natural to die as to be born.

The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

Birth was the death of him.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Death is a very important part of life.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Everything that gets born dies.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.