Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
“His fingers wrapped around the smooth metal handle, and he eased the knife from its sweat-patinaed leather sheath and weaved the blade… — Jacqueline Patricks Copy Share Image
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death.… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for… — Homer Copy Share Image
And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“The lord of distant archery, Apollo, answered: "Lord of earthquake, sound of mind you could not call me if I strove with… — Homer Copy Share Image
Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim,… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
“We poor mortals, we fellow sufferers, are such victims of biology that we fill our lives with guilt about natural acts…and that… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
