Famous quotes containing the word perishing:
“The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears
Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes,
And then the clash of fallen horsemen and the cries
Of unknown perishing armies beat about my ears.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)