Perish Quotes
421 Perish quotes by 322 unique authors
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Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world that He gave…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing…
— Alan Moore
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Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not…
— Ayn Rand
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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests Horus.
— Rick Riordan
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Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that --…
— Philip Roth
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People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)
— Robert Harris
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It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark…
— Emily Dickinson
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I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum…
— C.S. Lewis
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I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while…
— George Sand
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THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think…
— William Butler Yeats
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If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
— Charles Dickens
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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and…
— H.G. Wells
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He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.
— Aleister Crowley
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have…
— Mitch Albom
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If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
— Napoleon Hill
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We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of…
— Clive Barker
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Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope…
— James Thomson
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It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder
— John B. S. Haldane
Who Wrote These Perish Quotes
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