New objects will intermingle, and we are compelled to draw from our grief itself a fresh proof of the Perishableness of earthly things: alas, then, that our grief is transient!
"Famous Stories Every Child Should Know"
Various
You wrong me, my dear fellow, I was wholly mad-a frightful example of the Perishableness of all manly virtues.
"The Children of the World"
Paul Heyse
And while the lapse of time has not been able to make me doubt the worth of my work, neither has the lack of sympathy; for I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and senseless, stand in universal admiration and honour, and I bethought myself that if it were not the case, those who are capable of recognising the genuine and right are so rare that we may look for them in vain for some twenty years, then those who are capable of producing it could not be so few that their works afterwards form an exception to the Perishableness of earthly things; and thus would be lost the reviving prospect of posterity which every one who sets before himself a high aim requires to strengthen him.
"Essays of Schopenhauer"
Arthur Schopenhauer