Quotes About Perish

that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863

It makes you think the best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much must perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

Toda sociedad que excluya, relativamente, el desarrollo del amor, a la larga perece a causa de su propia contradicción con las necesidades básicas de la naturaleza del hombre.

Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.

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. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

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 you stand?

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18 KJV)

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

To argue:...only causes us to fall into the pit of Because, and there to perish with the dogs of Reason.

yet of their own poison do they perish

Quos deus vult perdere prius dementat,

Where there is no communication from God, the people perish.

If we should perish, the ruthlessness of the foe would be only the secondary cause of the disaster. The primary cause would be that the strength of a giant nation was directed by eyes too blind to see all the hazards of the struggle; and the blindness would be induced not by some accident of nature or history but by hatred and vainglory. —Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History, 1952

For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. PSALM 1:6

For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.

Yet leaving here a name, I trust,That will not perish in the dust.

It would be ironic,' I panted to Burrich and Dutiful, 'if after all these years of longing to die, he finally perished in an attempt to live.' Burrich snorted. 'We all perish in our last attempt to live.

It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death.

To be free, with him, signifies to escape from all the shackles of society. As he delights in this barbarous independence, and would rather perish than sacrifice the least part of it, civilization has little power over him.

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? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?

If you must suffer, suffer nobly. Love, laugh through your tears, or cry, create and perhaps, perish.

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 everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.