Perish Quotes

421 Perish quotes by 322 unique authors

I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of… — Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust
Love each other or perish — Wystan Hugh Auden
I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse — Lucy Maud Montgomery
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them,… — Ayn Rand
Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery — Anne Frank
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of… — James A. Baldwin
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old… — Clarence Day
I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death… — Yann Martel
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason. — Wystan Hugh Auden
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still.… — Ayn Rand
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty… — Joshua Chamberlain
Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die?… — Alfred de Vigny
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and… — Edwin Markham
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this… — John Milton
My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish. — Oprah Winfrey
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things… — Voltaire
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. — Friedrich Nietzsche
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than… — Herman Melville
You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed. — Ayn Rand
The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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