Mortals Quotes

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.

What we feel is mortal, and won't come again.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

Everything mortal has moments immortal

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

Stupid, fragile mortals.

Not all that is mortal is useless.

love isnt mortal or immortal. it just is

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end!

I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway.

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.