Perish Quotes

421 Perish quotes by 322 unique authors

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. — Anatole France
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. — Khalil Gibran
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. — Will Durant
Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it… — Andrea Dworkin
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its… — Thor Heyerdahl
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. — Abraham Lincoln
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new… — Abraham Lincoln
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. — Gustav Mahler
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while… — Terrence McNally
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. — Ben Okri
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. — Erwin Schrodinger
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have… — Walter Scott
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. — H.G. Wells
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. — Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia Woolf
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. — W. Somerset Maugham
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not… — Ayn Rand
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.… — Robert Frost
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from… — Radclyffe Hall
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!… — Kate Chopin
And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner.… — Ayn Rand

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