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... while men and women perished, and cities fell, symbols endured, grew. Symbols were immortal. — Louise Penny

By their own follies they perished, the fools. — Homer

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. — Epicurus

All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished. — Niccolo Machiavelli

That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to have perished. — Louis Aragon

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law. — Baron De Montesquieu

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Wasn't that the way of the world, though? Only the strong survived, and the weak perished. — Maya Banks

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. — Mark Twain

Retribution for the death of comrades who had perished because they were sent to that death ... — Stanislaw Lem

Crockery broke and fabric frayed. The delicate things I cared about perished, while the hard things like swords survived. — Sujata Massey

I would have perished had I not perished. — Soren Kierkegaard

But a sad fatality hung over this young girl. She had been given to seven husbands, all of whom had perished in the bride-chamber. — Soren Kierkegaard

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. — Theodore Roosevelt

Liberty was the breath of Emily's nostrils; without it she perished.

(about her sister) — Charlotte Bronte

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. — Henry Vaughan

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves. — Golda Meir

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers. — Harold Holzer

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone. — Virginia Woolf

Idiomatic expressions like "hungry as a horse" persisted for decades after the last horse had perished. — Kat Ross

without the act of imagination humanity would have perished long back — Thiruman Archunan

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself. — Coco Chanel

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. — William Wordsworth

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished. — Daniel Handler

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive. — Seneca The Younger

Republics, one after another ... have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people ... — Horace Mann

They grieved for those who perished with the cutter, and also for the biscuit casks and butter. — George Gordon Byron

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished? — Edna St. Vincent Millay

For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself. — Plato

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

While other dot-coms merged or perished, Amazon survived through a combination of conviction, improvisation, and luck. — Brad Stone

Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment. — Hugh Howey

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished. — Marilynne Robinson

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day. — Anthony Carmona

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish! — Umberto Eco