Mortals Quotes

310 Mortals quotes by 200 unique authors

When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the… — Bodhidharma
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to… — Bodhidharma
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect… — Ben Jonson
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all… — Horace
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines… — Samuel Johnson
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. — Gautama Buddha
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! — Alexander Pope
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. — Aeschylus
Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying… — Maurice Maeterlinck
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 is not too… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at… — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error. — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is… — John Muir
The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely… — Roald Amundsen
If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests,… — Pythagoras
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely… — John Muir
Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to… — Spencer W. Kimball
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. — George Eliot

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