--- title: "Best Perishing Quotes" description: "Browse 73 Perishing quotes by 67 authors. Discover the best Perishing sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e81/henry-grattan-guinness-242337_desire_i-do-now-most-heartily-desire-to-live-bu_558684.png" --- > [I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-grattan-guinness/i-do-now-most-heartily-desire-to-live-but-to-exalt-jesus-to-live/) [Henry Grattan Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-grattan-guinness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e81/henry-grattan-guinness-242337_desire_i-do-now-most-heartily-desire-to-live-bu_558684.png) > [For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hesiod/for-now-indeed-is-the-race-of-iron-and-men-never-cease-from-labour/) [Hesiod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hesiod/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/406/hesiod-2889_cease_for-now-indeed-is-the-race-of-iron-and-m_988126.jpg) > [It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-booth/it-is-impossible-to-comfort-men-s-hearts-with-the-love-of-god-when/) [William Booth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-booth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0be/william-booth-11758_cold_it-is-impossible-to-comfort-men-s-hearts_2249340.png) > [To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvester-stallone/to-know-that-the-odds-are-so-high-that-only-through-the-perishing-of/) [Sylvester Stallone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvester-stallone/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/sylvester-stallone-966_hero_to-know-that-the-odds-are-so-high-that-o_1900224.jpg) > [“Agatha grimaced. The last thing they needed was this world perishing while they were still in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soman-chainani/agatha-grimaced-the-last-thing-they-needed-was-this-world-perishing/) [Soman Chainani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soman-chainani/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0e/soman-chainani-11502_quote_agatha-grimaced-the-last-thing-they-need_1405363.jpg) > [Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-teasdale/not-one-would-mind-neither-bird-nor-tree-if-mankind-perished-utterly/) [Sara Teasdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-teasdale/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33f/sara-teasdale-2354_animal_not-one-would-mind-neither-bird-nor-tree_1299010.png) > [Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/loving-and-perishing-it-s-been-a-rhyme-all-these-eternities-the-will/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2db/friedrich-nietzsche-15_dies_loving-and-perishing-it-s-been-a-rhyme-a_352459.jpg) > [“Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/therein-is-the-whole-business-of-one-s-life-to-seek-out-and-save-in/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/leo-tolstoy-55_business_therein-is-the-whole-business-of-one-s-l_2143111.png) > [If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clark-blaise/if-i-describe-a-sunny-morning-in-may-the-buds-the-wet-winged-flies/) [Clark Blaise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clark-blaise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/clark-blaise-40946_breeze_if-i-describe-a-sunny-morning-in-may-the_1222972.png) > [In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-schweitzer/in-the-hearts-of-people-today-there-is-a-deep-longing-for-peace-when/) [Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-schweitzer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ec/albert-schweitzer-701_being-at-peace_in-the-hearts-of-people-today-there-is-a_1155261.jpg) > [As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/as-my-own-father-was-sick-and-miserably-tied-to-his-invalid-s-chair/) [Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63c/arthur-schopenhauer-226_abandoned_as-my-own-father-was-sick-and-miserably_1550078.jpg) > [In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/in-revolt-against-this-new-and-very-evil-thing-came-the-republicanism/) [Ralph Adams Cram](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-adams-cram/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/434/ralph-adams-cram-37040_aristocracy_in-revolt-against-this-new-and-very-evil_521315.jpg) > [The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anaxagoras/the-greeks-are-wrong-to-recognize-coming-into-being-and-perishing-for/) [Anaxagoras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anaxagoras/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/875/anaxagoras-26091_composition_the-greeks-are-wrong-to-recognize-coming_2431735.jpg) > [I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-looked-and-had-an-acute-pleasure-in-looking-a-precious-yet-poignant/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93b/charlotte-bronte-144_agony_i-looked-and-had-an-acute-pleasure-in-lo_1638149.jpg) > [In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khaled-hosseini/in-the-coming-days-and-weeks-laila-would-scramble-frantically-to/) [Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khaled-hosseini/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f29/khaled-hosseini-251_art_in-the-coming-days-and-weeks-laila-would_258938.png) > [She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khaled-hosseini/she-would-grab-whatever-she-could-a-look-a-whisper-a-moan-to-salvage/) [Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khaled-hosseini/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e7/khaled-hosseini-251_ends_she-would-grab-whatever-she-could-a-look_1216222.png) > [I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stott/i-have-never-been-able-to-conjure-up-as-some-great-evangelical/) [John Stott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/john-stott-1926_able_i-have-never-been-able-to-conjure-up-as_2825268.png) > [This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/this-deliberately-nurtured-hatred-then-spreads-to-all-that-is-alive/) [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5e/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-671_alive_this-deliberately-nurtured-hatred-then-s_1474013.jpg) > [I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/i-am-among-those-who-believe-that-our-western-civilization-is-on-its/) [Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e2/aiden-wilson-tozer-296_believe_i-am-among-those-who-believe-that-our-we_1764472.jpg) > [It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bunyan/it-is-sad-to-see-how-the-most-of-men-neglect-their-precious-souls/) [John Bunyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bunyan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/john-bunyan-1055_body_it-is-sad-to-see-how-the-most-of-men-neg_1414326.jpg) > [Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/letting-go-all-else-cling-to-the-following-few-truths-remember-that/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dc/marcus-aurelius-139_corners_letting-go-all-else-cling-to-the-followi_560065.jpg) > [He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-blake/he-who-does-not-imagine-in-stronger-and-better-lineaments-and-in/) [William Blake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-blake/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/william-blake-397_doe_he-who-does-not-imagine-in-stronger-and_2722163.jpg) > [Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/christians-alone-are-in-a-position-to-rescue-the-perishing-we-dare/) [Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdd/aiden-wilson-tozer-296_christian_christians-alone-are-in-a-position-to-re_3115345.png) > [Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/every-man-becomes-the-image-of-the-god-he-adores-he-whose-worship-is/) [Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f8/thomas-merton-231_adore_every-man-becomes-the-image-of-the-god-h_2603420.jpg) > [He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-matheson/he-stood-there-for-a-moment-looking-around-the-silent-room-shaking/) [Richard Matheson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-matheson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d5/richard-matheson-3375_artifacts_he-stood-there-for-a-moment-looking-arou_1621938.jpg) > [Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/language-is-the-amber-in-which-a-thousand-precious-and-subtle/) [Richard Chenevix Trench](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-chenevix-trench/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50c/richard-chenevix-trench-23976_amber_language-is-the-amber-in-which-a-thousan_760298.jpg) > [We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/we-have-seen-when-the-earth-had-to-be-prepared-for-the-habitation-of/) [John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00f/john-ruskin-314_be-prepared_we-have-seen-when-the-earth-had-to-be-pr_2398601.jpg) > [I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robertson-davies/i-am-constantly-astonished-by-the-people-otherwise-intelligent-who/) [Robertson Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robertson-davies/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/781/robertson-davies-834_affection_i-am-constantly-astonished-by-the-people_933454.png) > [Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-joshua-heschel/faith-is-not-the-clinging-to-a-shrine-but-an-endless-pilgrimage-of/) [Abraham Joshua Heschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-joshua-heschel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/abraham-joshua-heschel-1851_audacious_faith-is-not-the-clinging-to-a-shrine-bu_748508.png) > [The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-m-church/the-main-goal-is-to-increase-diversity-the-one-thing-that-is-bad-for/) [George M. Church](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-m-church/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/george-m-church-45868_culture_the-main-goal-is-to-increase-diversity-t_1396284.jpg) > [Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thomson/your-woe-hath-been-my-anguish-yea-i-quail-and-perish-in-your/) [James Thomson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thomson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c5/james-thomson-25111_anguish_your-woe-hath-been-my-anguish-yea-i-quai_3044050.png) > [That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/that-which-is-apprehended-by-intelligence-and-reason-is-always-in-the/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce6/plato-103_becoming_that-which-is-apprehended-by-intelligenc_174036.jpg) > [When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/when-with-care-we-have-raised-an-imaginary-treasure-of-happiness-we/) [Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/520/samuel-rogers-16135_architecture_when-with-care-we-have-raised-an-imagina_1799195.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perishing/#itemlist", "name": "Perishing Quotes", "numberOfItems": 33, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry Grattan Guinness" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-grattan-guinness/i-do-now-most-heartily-desire-to-live-but-to-exalt-jesus-to-live/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e81/henry-grattan-guinness-242337_desire_i-do-now-most-heartily-desire-to-live-bu_558684.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e81/henry-grattan-guinness-242337_desire_i-do-now-most-heartily-desire-to-live-bu_558684.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e81/henry-grattan-guinness-242337_desire_i-do-now-most-heartily-desire-to-live-bu_558684.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach…” — Henry Grattan Guinness", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hesiod" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hesiod/for-now-indeed-is-the-race-of-iron-and-men-never-cease-from-labour/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/406/hesiod-2889_cease_for-now-indeed-is-the-race-of-iron-and-m_988126.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/406/hesiod-2889_cease_for-now-indeed-is-the-race-of-iron-and-m_988126.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/406/hesiod-2889_cease_for-now-indeed-is-the-race-of-iron-and-m_988126.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by…” — Hesiod", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Booth" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-booth/it-is-impossible-to-comfort-men-s-hearts-with-the-love-of-god-when/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0be/william-booth-11758_cold_it-is-impossible-to-comfort-men-s-hearts_2249340.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0be/william-booth-11758_cold_it-is-impossible-to-comfort-men-s-hearts_2249340.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0be/william-booth-11758_cold_it-is-impossible-to-comfort-men-s-hearts_2249340.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.” — William Booth", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. 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