Top 100 Quotes About Perish
#1. 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
#2. As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#4. Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.
Kofi Annan
#5. If a man does not die in the womb or perish at birth, God has a great purpose for him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to perish through the present ones.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. Fascism will perish for the very reason that it has applied to man the laws applicable to atoms and cobblestones!
Vasily Grossman
#8. Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?
P. Harding
#9. Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.
Zoe Saldana
#10. My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
Oprah Winfrey
#11. They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.
Frank Herbert
#12. Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
Adolf Hitler
#13. For the whole world to vanish into thin air, or for me not to drink my tea? I say, let the world perish if I can always drink my tea.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#14. Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.
Richard Baxter
#15. And truly, God does not make known his will to us, that the knowledge of it may perish with us; but that we may be his witnesses to posterity and that they may deliver the knowledge received through us, from hand to hand, (as we say,) to their descendants.
John Calvin
#16. God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
R.C. Sproul
#17. From the beginning of a Christian's life to the end, the only reason he does not perish is because "the Lord was there." When
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#18. God's will is that none should perish. Judgement isn't His desire ... but His necessity. The good must bring evil to an end, or else it would cease to be good. And yet His mercy is still greater than His judgement. His heart always wills for redemption. And therein lies the hope.
Jonathan Cahn
#19. Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done
Immanuel Kant
#20. In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.
Robin Sacredfire
#21. A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.
Carroll Quigley
#22. That sport best pleases that doth least know how, where zeal strives to content, and the contents dies in the zeal of that which it presents. Their form confounded makes most form in mirth when great things laboring perish in their birth.
William Shakespeare
#23. The Bible says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16 and in that moment I realized, "Wow, there's a love greater than what I know of in this world."
Christian Hosoi
#25. The world may perish, but the meat grinder is indestructible. (112)
Tatyana Tolstaya
#26. All forms that perish other forms supply,
(By turns we catch the vital breath and die)
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Alexander Pope
#27. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without 'abstract attitude' but will speedily perish if deprived of judgment. Judgment must be the first faculty of higher life or mind -
Oliver Sacks
#28. Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said, where there is no vision the people perish. But it is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism.
G.K. Chesterton
#29. This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
Euripides
#30. He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.
Aleister Crowley
#31. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over [its] enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory.
Maria Faustina Kowalska
#32. Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like ships driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish
Walter Scott
#33. Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?
Decimius Magnus Ausonius
#34. This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.
James Baldwin
#35. The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder
John B. S. Haldane
#36. Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
Ben Okri
#37. It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.
George R R Martin
#38. You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it's a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.
Frederick Lenz
#39. The cross represents, not light, but hope. The hope that one day, when we actually do perish, we will be taken into the light.
Tyree Campbell
#40. No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
Hesiod
#42. If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
Charles Dickens
#43. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
#44. If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
R.C. Sproul
#46. 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
Abraham Lincoln
#47. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16
John Apostle
#48. One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
Bodhidharma
#49. When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
#50. I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone ... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#51. 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)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.
Friedrich Holderlin
#53. The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal, and so is the cask in comparison with the wine contained in it: but if the cask be staved in, the wine must perish.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#54. And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.
The sacred word:
EGO
Ayn Rand
#55. Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
Rosa Parks
#56. Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.
Dhanush
#58. Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
Czeslaw Milosz
#59. We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.
Maximilien Robespierre
#60. Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
William Penn
#61. Having been ripped open and drained by the crowd
When I enter my home,
Many homes seem to be waiting for me
to give a shape to this life
which is about to perish.
Suman Pokhrel
#62. When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
Jack Smith
#63. 19And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.
Anonymous
#65. Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.
Mark Gorman
#66. Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously and usefully if they could weather a particular storm.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#67. But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses of its slaves, whole hecatombs of workers, who perish in the crises.
Karl Marx
#68. The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
John Hay
#69. However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.
Hilary Of Poitiers
#70. If you took a blue spruce tree and planted it in the desert, it would obviously perish. How do we forget that we too are living systems, and each of us have unique environments, needs, and conditions within which we flourish or wither?
Dawna Markova
#71. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
H.G.Wells
#72. From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.
Louis Kronenberger
#73. Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.
Charles Lyell
#74. Even an acknowledgment from someone who hates him is better than having no one but strangers watch him perish.
Neal Shusterman
#75. Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.
Phyllis McGinley
#76. If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!
Thomas Malthus
#77. All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish.
Felix Wantang
#78. 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?
Alfred De Vigny
#79. Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.
William Hare
#81. Unhappy Europe! Thou shalt perish by the moral insanity of thy children!
Joseph Conrad
#82. The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.
Richard Watson
#83. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie Chaplin
#84. What a foreign concept it is to die, to cough up what you are as if it is no more than mucus pooled at the back of your throat, and perish.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#85. For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term
Emily Thorne
#86. I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.
Orson Welles
#87. I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.
Robert Anton Wilson
#88. It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: 'Behold thy son', provided that he has not turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him: 'Behold thy Mother.'
Robert Bellarmine
#89. 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
E. M. Forster
#90. We all of us die, Miss Smallwood,' he interrupted. 'But we don't all of us make our lives count for something. How much better to die saving another soul than to stand safe on shore and do nothing while others perish?
Julie Klassen
#91. All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
George Bernard Shaw
#92. A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish . . . version of a timeless rule.
Philip K. Dick
#93. He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.
Sun Tzu
#94. If the elect could perish then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to His Father because God the Father hath given this charge to Christ, that whomsoever He elected, Christ should preserve them safe, to bring them to heaven. John 6:39.
Christopher Love
#95. We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.
Thomas Berry
#96. You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.
Oscar Romero
#97. Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
Richard Owen
#98. We shall perish
along the path of Love.
Fate will trample us. Yeah, tempting
young woman, get up and give me your lips
before I return to dust.
Omar Khayyam
#99. It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.
Carl Sagan
#100. Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.
Rebecca West
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