Top 100 Perish'd Quotes
#1. Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.
John Armstrong
#2. The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them-She was the Universe.
Lord Byron
#4. Better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee,
Herman Melville
#5. Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.
Winifred Holtby
#6. Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.
He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead.
He who loves corruption rots.
He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow.
He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.
Thomas Merton
#7. Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati.
In unrightousness they prosper, in it they find their good, through it they defeat their enemies, - but they perish at the root.
Rabindranath Tagore
#9. Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.
Odysseas Elytis
#11. If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive.
Liezi
#12. We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.
H. Rider Haggard
#13. I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
Thomas Browne
#14. 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.
Franz Kafka
#15. I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
Yann Martel
#16. There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish.
Kevin Durand
#17. Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid
#19. In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
Jonas Mekas
#20. Whosoever believeth in His blood shall not perish. Those who believed Jesus came down from heaven got results when He was here because they knew He had divine blood, believed He was born of a virgin. He had the flesh of a human being, but the blood of divinity.
Ernest Angley
#21. Things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.
Denis Johnson
#22. Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish ...
C.J. Cherryh
#23. Why is the heart that is broken considered so much more valuable than the one or the two who must cause the pain lest they themselves perish?"
Ellen Key
#24. It is the season of giving, a season of love, 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believe in Him should not perish, have everlasting life,' (John 3:16).
Euginia Herlihy
#25. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
Winston Churchill
#26. Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
Ovid
#27. To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#28. My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does this not somehow evidence both the reality of and need for God?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#30. It is understandable, therefore, that the movement to stop global warming has taken on the feel of a religion. The core belief is that humankind inherited a pristine Eden, has sinned greatly by polluting it, and must now suffer lest we all perish in a fiery apocalypse.
Steven D. Levitt
#31. You're boring me, M'Ordant. Go away." V'Aidan
"You can't be bored." M'Ordant
"And a good thing, too, since I'd no doubt perish from it while in your company." V'Aidan
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#32. That has to be one of the dumbest phrases Christians use: "finding God's will." We don't have to "find" God's will, because it's not lost. "The Lord ... is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9 NKJV). His will is that we be involved in that mission.
J.D. Greear
#33. I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
David Bowie
#34. The sacrifice 'of' self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice 'for' self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. Cause I'd rather stay here
With all the madmen
Than perish with the sadmen roaming free
And I'd rather play here
With all the madmen
For I'm quite content they're all as sane
As me
David Bowie
#36. Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
Alexander Pope
#37. Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.
D. Allen Miller
#38. In many instances, the failures of my greatest schemes ultimately lead to the fulfillment of my greatest successes. Therefore, God will allow our most cherished dreams to perish so that we might turn and seek out His most cherished plans.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
Ayn Rand
#40. Where there are repeated wars, the people are weakened; when they score repeated victories, rulers become haughty. Let haughty rulers command weakened people, and rare is the nation that will not perish as a result.
Sun Tzu
#41. Which Anguish was the utterest
then
To perish, or to live?
Emily Dickinson
#43. The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.
Jacob Bronowski
#45. Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#46. It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
Andrea Yates
#47. The world will by no means perish by a diminution in the number of evil men.
Immanuel Kant
#48. When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
William Cowper
#49. The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
John Milton
#50. I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may perish through a small matter: thus he goes willingly over the bridge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.
Timothy Long
#52. We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca The Younger
#53. Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.
Francis Quarles
#54. Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.
Philip Doddridge
#55. I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. 'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'
Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza
#59. Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
Queen Victoria
#60. Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.
Winston Graham
#61. If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#62. The idea is that human culture as broadly defined
art, politics, technology, religion, and so on
evolves in much the way biological species evolve: new cultural traits arise and may flourish or perish, and as a result whole institutions can belief systems form and change.
Robert Wright
#63. Our love will be the light and the darkness shall perish beneath the weight of it.
Andrea Zuvich
#64. The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike ... Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
C.S. Lewis
#66. We all perish in our last attempt to live.
Robin Hobb
#67. Just sit and think? Perish the thought.
Anonymous
#68. This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
Robert W. Service
#69. Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
Philip K. Dick
#70. The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
Baron De Montesquieu
#71. Let my name perish,
the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.
Sidney Lanier
#72. Some of us die long before our last breath. We perish in the fire of love, reduced to ashes in the consuming blaze. No, we do not die when our hearts cease to beat, but when they start beating the first time
for somebody else.
Shakieb Orgunwall
#73. Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.
John Replogle
#74. Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.
Adolf Hitler
#75. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
Daniel Goldstein
#76. These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
Bill McKibben
#77. When adults wage war, children perish.
Elie Wiesel
#78. Aodhan was the one who answered, voice quiet but words potent. If Raphael were to perish, the Seven divided, would we not come together should we have a chance to avenge his death?
Nalini Singh
#79. It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
Robert Collier
#80. For I bring not a religion ... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.
Corrie Ten Boom
#81. Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.
George Bernard Shaw
#82. When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Euripides
#83. 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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#84. O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
J.C. Ryle
#85. 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.
Robert Frost
#86. Logic is like the sword
those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler
#88. Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.
Viktor Schauberger
#89. No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his footsteps as they falter and almost stumble, and this is so because the weakness of his free will may cause him to lose balance, and if he falls he may perish forever.
John Cassian
#90. 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.
Olivia De Havilland
#91. I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace.
Rosa Parks
#92. Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,
For works may have more with than does 'em good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.
Alexander Pope
#93. Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell side by side in the conscience. It is either grace or law. To muddle the two is to eliminate the Gospel of Christ entirely.
Martin Luther
#94. In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.
Jonathan Lethem
#95. But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.
Aristotle.
#96. Fall has arrived and has already begun to put everything into a deep sleep; flies and other insects have suffered their first setback, and up in the trees and down on the ground you can hear the sounds of struggling life, puttering , ceaselessly rustling, laboring not to perish.
Knut Hamsun
#97. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of
heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.
James Allen
#98. If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
Epicurus
#99. The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. I live about 60 miles northwest of New York City, and whenever there's news of a big snowstorm coming, everyone runs for the store. The perishable items are usually the first things to go, which doesn't make sense because they perish.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
