Mortals Quotes

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There is nothing assured to mortals.

— Horace

O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

— Dante Alighieri

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

— Aeschylus

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

— William Shakespeare

Composing mortals with immortal fire.

— W. H. Auden

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

— Moliere

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

— Voltaire

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

— Henry Miller

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

— Tacitus

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

— George Washington

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

— Homer

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

— Bruce R. McConkie

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

— Anonymous

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

— Herman Melville

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

— Plutarch

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

— Dante Alighieri

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

ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Rick Yancey

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

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

— Adam Smith

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

Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises…

— Catherine of Aragon

Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not…

— William Wordsworth

When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the…

— Adolf Hitler

I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious.…

— Sam Savage

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. .…

— Isaac Watts

Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is…

— Hal Turner

Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe…

— Jostein Gaarder

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes…

— Josiah Royce

“The Nevernever is dying, human. It grows smaller and smaller every decade. Too much progress, too much technology. Mortals are losing their…

— Julie Kagawa

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

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

Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked…

— Karen Armstrong

Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their…

— Nick Tosches

We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points…

— Herman Melville

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

You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in…

— Steven Pressfield