#perish

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#above #beasts #been #certain #city

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#months #perishable #success #summer

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#am #face #flesh #i #i am

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

— Virginia Woolf

#asunder #beauty #cutting #edges #heart

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#education #ignorance #ignorant-people #information #information-is-liberation

We shall perish by guile just as we slew. ↗

— Aeschylus

#perish #shall #slew

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#ninth #pass #perish #remain #symphony

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#does #few #gait #himself #his

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

#femininity #free #know #longer #manhood

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#eternal peace #grown #mankind #only #peace