We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

- Aeschylus

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

- Daniel J. Bernstein

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

- Francis Thompson

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

- James Salter

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

- Mikhail Bakunin

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

- Phaedrus

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

- Sophocles