Quotes About Perish

Deprived of support it perished or was re-absorbed into the part of the mind that seldom speaks.

Only some rubbish about furniture. Helen says it alone endures while men and houses perish, and that in the end the world will be a desert of chairs and sofas — just imagine it! — rolling through infinity with no one to sit upon them.

Thy money perish with thee.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.

A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.

What are our lungs supposed to do? I shouted. Shouted: If they breathe fast they suffocate themselves from inner poisons; if they breathe slowly they suffocate from unbreathable air, from outraged things. But if they try to search for their own rhythm they perish from the mere search.

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

The next minute is strong, joyful, it presumes to bring in eternity, and brings death, and perishes like the last one, but time subsists.

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

A captive may sing but still perish

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

You have made danger your vocation; there is nothing contemptible in that. Now you perish of your vocation: for that I will bury you with my own hands

An incalculable number of higher individuals now perish: but he who escapes their fate is as strong as the devil.

If, as Gibbon says, nothing but time - though a long time- is required for a world to perish; so nothing but time -though still more time- is required for a false idea to be destroyed in Germany.

Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.

As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness ? there can be no doubt that morality will gradually perish: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe ? the most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of spectacles.

We are conducting an experiment with truth! Perhaps mankind will perish because of it! Fine!

A culture based on the principle of science must perish once it begins to become illogical, i.e. to turn and flee its own consequences.

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to perish through the present ones.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.