Quotes About Perish

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

By "the Permanent Things" [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we are as the beasts that perish. They work upon us all in the sense that both they and we are bound up in that continuity of belief and institution called the great mysterious incorporation of the human race.

Your principles have life in them. For how can they perish, unless the ideas that correspond to them are extinguished? And it is up to you to be constantly fanning them into new flame.

Everything's destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.

Troy deserves her doom, then!" said Cassandra. "I leave it to you. I shall perish with you! But I see my end, whereas you are blind.

He supposed he'd always known he would not make old bones. Scriptures spoke plainly enough on that. For all they that take up the sword shall perish by the sword.

And now we're being assaulted by the gallu. May they all burn and perish in the ashes of a dragon's scaly ass! (Tyris)

Faith is denial, or the metaphor Idiotcy, hence it always fails. To make their bondage more secure Governments force religion down the throats of their slaves, and it always suceeds; those who escape it are but few, therefore their honour is the greater. When faith perishes, the "Self" shall come into its own.

Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida every year. We understand it within the context of the Cuban reality.

Jugurtha:) That it was a venal city, and would soon perish, if it could but find a purchaser!

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

Still, without the truth, all will perish and be lost. Come here inside the temple with me, daughter. You will find what you seek.

in my opinion those who strive for fame will lose their lives on account of fame; those who live in quest of fortune will perish because of riches; those who have titles sleep embracing a tiger; and those who receive official favors walk with snakes in their sleeves.

If we are to perish in the battles of the future, let us do our best to prepare ourselves to perish with a clear vision of the world we shall be leaving behind.

Shall we not perish wretchedest of all, If in defiance of the law we cross A monarch's will?—weak women, think of that, Not framed by nature to contend with men. Remember

Favour will as surely perish as life.

For who would lose,Though full of pain, this intellectual being,Those thoughts that wander through eternity,To perish rather, swallow'd up and lostIn the wide womb of uncreated night,Devoid of sense and motion?

wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves.

All that exists deserves to perish.

Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.

Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.

When you see carnage and "random" horror, hear the voice of God: "Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3, 5).

Or do Mafeking Night and the rest stand in the place of the secret and personal–in the place of what cannot be told and must perish with us–moments when for no reason that we can understand–a warm evening, the scent of leaves, a cock crowing far away–all the air becomes distended with grief. A moment such as this.

In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves.