Famous quotes containing the word perish:
“O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the crevices of the rocks.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“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 (b. 1946)
“If he should take back his spirit to himself, and gather to himself his breath, all flesh would perish together, and all mortals return to dust.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 34:14-15.