Quotes of: Perished Keyword

We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.

G.K. Chesterton

Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!

Art

People perish. Books are immortal.

Pompeii

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

Robert Harris

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Eric Hoffer

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells

Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!

Life

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Quintilian

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

Gustav Mahler

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

John Randolph

Everything that falls upon the eye is an apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves & brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away...so familiar as to imply t...

Marilynn Robinson in Housekeeping

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Ramana Maharshi

Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish.

St. Ambrose of Milan

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

Livy

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Milan Kundera

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Samuel Butler

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Khalil Gibran

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King, Jr.