For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been…

“In the ferment of our civil societies, from which the guardian angels seem to depart, we see many every moment sliding at the brink.…

— Anonymous

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe…

— Anonymous

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these…

— Chief Seattle

“My great thought is in himself. If all else perished and he remained I should still continue to be and if all else remained…

— Emily Brontë

There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no…

— Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus

“...the sixth [eligible lady] perished miserably after returning to me one of my most cherished books with the leaves dog-eared and the binding cracked.…

— Roswell Field

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

— William Wordsworth

It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible…

— Proclus

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe…

— Tillie Cole

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

— Coco Chanel

Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb…

— Marcel Proust

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe…

— Emily Bronte

I would have perished had I not perished.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Being Jewish has always been important to me. I now have 6M tattooed on the inside of my left arm. It's only a half-inch,…

— Joan Rivers

No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood…

— Ezra Taft Benson