The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son,… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where… — Satoshi Tajiri Copy Share Image
Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I just want to be remembered as someone who wanted people to think free and wanted people to be free, whether it's… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance,… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives… — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
Hail the day that sees Him rise, Ravished from our wistful eyes! Christ, awhile to mortals given, Re-ascends His native heaven. There… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained… — Plato Copy Share Image
Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“With our limited life spans, we mere mortals have to figure out what best to do with our time so that when… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image