George Sterling Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera") The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

2. A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

3. And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.("To Science") The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

4. As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn,The gods and monsters pass,Are dust, and return.(The Face of the Skies) The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

5. O Space and Time and stars at strife,How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity,How strange, how terrible, is life!(The Testimony of the Suns) The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

6. The candle glimmers but an hour. The nightLooms in its ancient hunger. Would you knowThe tragedy of human love and need?Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face! The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

7. The pathway traced with blood and tears,and dust of all our father's dead,Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red,Fade to the mist of nameless years.(The Testimony of the Suns) The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror