“To attack is to believe you are mortal. Only mortals would believe anything has power over them.” �— Earth Sentinels” — Shaman Elizabeth Herrera Copy Share Image
But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod — Ovid Copy Share Image
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden… It is sad that Nature will play such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm… — Harold Percival Copy Share Image
And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“The Nevernever is dying, human. It grows smaller and smaller every decade. Too much progress, too much technology. Mortals are losing their… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions. — Joe Peterson Copy Share Image
To become as perfect as a mortal being can become, we need to bring the mind, body, and spirit into total harmony...We… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for… — Ieyasu Tokugawa Copy Share Image
I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals. — Armand Borel Copy Share Image
Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly… — Homer Copy Share Image
Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“We were mortals in the presence of a goddess. How could anyone ever be interested in someone like me with women like… — Serra Elinsen Copy Share Image
If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist!… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image