#perish

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

#above #beasts #been #certain #city

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

#beautiful #beautiful things #because #best #despair

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. ↗

— Ovid

#fears #man #perish #whom #wishes

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. ↗

— Ovid

#endows #except #go #hearts #i

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. ↗

— Paracelsus

#away #because #fooling #know #our

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ↗

— Plautus

#conduct #death #delay #fangs #grinning

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#months #perishable #success #summer

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#egoism #forming #greatly #perish #restricting

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#cannot #fight #must #now #out