A Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

I would have perished had I not perished.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish - Philosopher
May 5, 1813 - November 11, 1855

I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.

William Butler Yeats

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

Coco Chanel

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

Socrates

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Sara Teasdale

Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

Will Cuppy

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Henry Vaughan

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

Junipero Serra

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

Francis Galton

I've never really understood how people cannot value the future, or think that the world is going down a fast slippery slope of degradation. No, I don't think so; this is just what it's going to take to wake us up, and allow us to do what our ancestors did. You know, our ancestors brought us here by tooth and claw. A lot of people perished, a lot of pre-humans perished. Life has never been easy. Why should it be easy for us?

Gordon Hempton

I would have rather had a dad with change jingling in his pocket; one who would have spent the last forty minutes of the world raking leaves for his kids to jump in, so that they perished in one loud, bright instant, giggles still bubbling up from their bellies, never suspecting a thing. Yeah, well. Tough luck, rich boy.

S.A. Bodeen

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Epicurus

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Homer

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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