Famous quotes containing the word perish:
“The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“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)