Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? — John Milton Copy Share Image
Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. — Livy Copy Share Image
You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no… — Parmenides Copy Share Image
I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus… — Horace Copy Share Image
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.” — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
“Of course, most mortals can't see magic clearly, so I'm not sure what they thought they saw as we passed overhead. No… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but… — Homer Copy Share Image
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way -… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider… — Cecil O. Samuelson Copy Share Image
When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Thank and glorify His Beloved Son, who, with indescribable suffering, gave His life on Calvary's cross to pay the debt of mortal… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image