Mortal Quotes - page 3

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
How shall we celebrate the day, When God appeared in mortal clay, The mark of worldly scorn; When the Archangel's heavenly Lays, Attempted the Redeemer's Praise, And hail'd Salvation's Morn! View quote
Thomas Chatterton
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up. View quote
Plutarch
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made? View quote
Steven Erikson
But shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid. View quote
William Wordsworth
No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. View quote
Euripides
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best. View quote
Euripides
All mortal greatness is but disease. View quote
Herman Melville
Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye, In shady leaves of destiny. (Richard Crashaw)
Anyone who took their Catholic faith seriously stood alongside the Jews in mutual, mortal conflict with Hitler. View quote
Victor Klemperer
When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory. View quote
Sophocles
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. View quote
Frank Herbert
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. View quote
John Milton
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal. View quote
Alexander the Great
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. View quote
Sigmund Freud
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. View quote
Adam Smith
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin. (Thomas Aquinas)
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God. View quote
Martin Luther
Oh, where is man- That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator- The interpreter of all her mystic strains - Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee? View quote
Hartley Coleridge
For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. View quote
John F. Kennedy
...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward. View quote
Peter David