Perish Quotes

421 Perish quotes by 322 unique authors

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness,… — Sylvia Plath
Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive? — Jim Butcher
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption… — Thomas Merton
The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine!… — Gustave Flaubert
This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the… — Scott Westerfeld
I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. — C.S. Lewis
Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail,… — Rick Riordan
God's will is that none should perish. Judgement isn't His desire...but His necessity. The good must bring evil to an end, or else it would… — Jonathan Cahn
Do not let the hero in your soul perish... — Ayn Rand
Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done — Immanuel Kant
Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page. — Thomas Ligotti
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger. — Seneca the Younger
If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to… — Charles Luckman
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand… — Pope John Paul II
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If… — Karl Popper
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure… — Winston Churchill
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem ofhuman existence, then… — Erich Fromm
We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert. — Thomas Berry
Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together… — John F. Kennedy
It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning… — Carl Sagan
Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make… — Baron d'Holbach
This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive. — Robert W. Service
Let freedom never perish in your hands. — Joseph Addison
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a… — Alexander Pope

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