#perish

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#adjustment #difficult #failure #harmonize #important

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

#awful #between #cold #disappears #friendship

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#eternally #even #everything #finite #form

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #came #city #detroit #evanescent

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

#die #hate #liberty #long #men

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#fires #hatred #hostility #perishes #petty

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. ↗

— Francis Thompson

#other #our #own #pain #perish

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#femininity #free #know #longer #manhood

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#duty #enjoy #enrich #extend #his

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#eternal peace #grown #mankind #only #peace