Mortals Quotations

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

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

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway.

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life,

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy

For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

For mortals vanished from the day's sweet light I shed no tear; rather I mourn for those who day and night live in death's fear

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Stupid, fragile mortals.

To be saved is here, local and mortal

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

Everything mortal has moments immortal

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

Experience join'd with common sense, to mortals is a providence

What avails love when life is so ephemeral? What avaiIs a mortals love for the immortal? Love that is snuffed out by deaths passing blast Love without the pain, the passion that consumes? A flickering spark I am, aglow for a fleeting glance Flow vain for a flickering spark to chase an eternal flame! Grant me the bliss of eternal life, O Lord, And mine will be the ecstasy of eternal love. Give me the pleasure of an everlasting pain An agony that lacerates my soul for ever.

We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done; but distrust of one's ability to gain the goodness desired and to bring out better and higher results, often hampers the trial of one's wings and ensures failure at the outset.

Superman, who is used to scaling a tall building in a single bound. Now it takes two bounds. But for mere mortals like you and I, that's still Superman.

It used to be felt that you had to know someone in the music business to get into it. It was not for mere mortals like us. This enthused people and enfranchised them to become part of culture.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

love isnt mortal or immortal. it just is

Not all that is mortal is useless.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Youth is a mortal wound.

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

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Their apostles said: Is there doubt about Allah, the Maker of the heavens and the earth? He invites you to forgive you your faults and to respite you till an appointed term. They said: You are nothing but mortals like us; you wish to turn us away from what our fathers used to worship; bring us therefore some clear authority.

Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.

And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness.

And every grief that mortals share Found pity in his tenderness.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.

The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

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

Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.

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

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

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.

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

Oh what fools we mortals are.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Perfection falls not to the share of mortals

It is not given to the cleverest and the most calculating of mortals to know with certainty what is their interest. Yet it is given to quite a lot of simple folk to know everyday what is their duty

Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the

Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it

Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.