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.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

I am the family face flesh perishes I live on.

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.

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.

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

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.

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder.

The English Bible - a book which if everything else in our language should perish would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.