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Quotes About Perish

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside which is like the cold of space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
~ Hilaire Belloc
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
~ Hilaire Belloc
You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.
~ Hölderlin
Therefore the fame of her excellence will never perish, and the immortals will fashion among earthly men a gracious song in honor of faithful Penelope.
~ Homer
I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge
My dearest mother, I have done everything in my power to make sure you receive this letter before anyone can tell you that I died at sea. As the date on this letter shows, I did not perish when
~ Jeffrey Archer
As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
~ Uday Kotak
Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.
~ Vasily Grossman
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
~ Sam Houston
the state is something purely mechanical — and there is no [spiritual] idea of a machine. Only what is an object of freedom may be called 'idea'. Therefore we must transcend the state! For every state must treat free men as cogs in a machine. And this is precisely what should not happen; hence the state must perish.
~ Unknown
Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?
~ Jim Butcher
As long as a language lives, the war will not perish.
~ Unknown
The benefit of good thoughts in life is that even if they are forgotten they don't perish.
~ Unknown
Unless you repent, you too will all perish" (Luke 13:3, 5).
~ Unknown
Psalm 102:25-27 says that, although the physical universe undergoes decay and will perish, God remains the same: In the
~ Unknown
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
~ Virginia Woolf
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.
~ Unknown
Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
~ W.H. Auden
Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.
~ Laozi
No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.
~ Kiran Desai
That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that—of just that.
~ Philip Roth
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
~ Irving Babbitt
This city was supposed to last forever, but we broke it and laid it in tatters. Let Momus rebuild it, it will happen again, and again. The work of man is destined to perish. Momus said he plans a city that will celebrate mankind forever. You know what? I bet that's what the architects who built this place thought too.
~ Dan Abnett