Mortal Quotes

Reason is immortal, all else mortal. (Pythagoras)
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. View quote
Edmund Burke
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
No hero is mortal till he dies. View quote
W. H. Auden
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. View quote
Mark Akenside
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. View quote
George Eliot
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. View quote
Joseph Addison
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. (Edith Wharton)
Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
All men think all men mortal, but themselves. View quote
Edward Young
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. View quote
Erwin Rommel
There is no death What seems so is transition This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable. View quote
Anne Rice
in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. View quote
Davy Crockett
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies. (Jonathan Swift)
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. View quote
Mary Oliver
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. View quote
William Wordsworth
Yet tears to human suffering are due And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. View quote
William Wordsworth
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. View quote
David Bowie
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