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Quotes About Perish

If you get into danger, either you perish or you escape.
~ Halldor Laxness
Crois-tu que la flamme de l'âme puisse périr dans les flammes du bucher?
~ Hans Christian Andersen
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
~ Alfred Noyes
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 globe, or perish together!
~ Scott Westerfeld
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
~ Dora Russell
Our pride will lead us to perish, but our politeness keeps us alive.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He planted a one-word caution sign between you and hell's path: perish. "Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). Jesus spoke of hell often. Thirteen percent of his teachings refer to eternal judgment and hell.4 Two-thirds of his parables relate to resurrection and judgment.5 Jesus wasn't cruel or capricious, but he was blunt. His candor stuns.
~ Max Lucado
The thought of the future of the unredeemed makes me shiver. I have no desire for anyone to go there. Not even the vilest sinner. I pray for all to repent! If God was willing to save me, He is willing to save anyone who asks. He does not want "anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance" (2 Pet. 3:9).
~ Beth Moore
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them. PSALM 145:19 Where there is no vision, the people perish. PROVERBS 29:18 KJV You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. PSALM 145:16
~ Stormie Omartian
This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.
~ Frances Hardinge
Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament . . . the Bible says God commands repentance . . . it is a command . . . God says, "Repent! Or perish!
~ Billy Graham
And truly the very fact of existing is by some natural spell so pleasant, that even the wretched are, for no other reason, unwilling to perish; and, when they feel that they are wretched, wish not that they themselves be annihilated, but that their misery be so.
~ St. Augustine
Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.
~ Odysseas Elytis
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
~ George Herbert
Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatures who were still little more than animals. It was as if vultures feasted on and squabbled over the paralyzed body of the youthful poet who could only stare at them with puzzled eyes as they slowly robbed him of an exquisite existence they would never appreciate, never know they were taking.
~ Michael Moorcock
The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!
~ Jennifer Rothschild
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
~ T.S. Eliot.
The world may perish, but the meat grinder is indestructible.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
In Arabic linguistic usage, we are told, the interpretation of "water" as knowledge is confirmed by the common fi gure of speech that calls a man of vast knowledge an "ocean." Moreover, the comparison of water and knowledge suggests that just as those who would sail the sea without a ship would drown in it, those who look for knowledge among those who do not have it will perish.
~ Franz Rosenthal
le fait que toute manifestation formelle implique des limites qui contribueront indirectement à sa fin, n'est pas une raison suffisante pour qu'une tradition ne se manifeste pas ; la parole du Christ : « Celui qui frappe par l'épée, périra par l'épée » est d'une portée universelle : celui qui affirme, périra par l'affirmation.
~ Frithjof Schuon
But if we may perish by cracks in things that we don't know.
~ Henry James