Mortals Quotes

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!

I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

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

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.