Mortal Quotes - page 11

If one choose the goods of the soul, he chooses the diviner [portion]; if the goods of the body, the merely mortal. (Democritus)
Memories belong in the soil, in stone, in wind. They are the land's unseen meaning, such that touches the soul of all who would look - truly look - upon it. Touches, in faintest whisper, old, almost shapeless echoes - to which a mortal life adds its own. View quote
Steven Erikson
Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death. View quote
Steven Erikson
Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal's hands. Such is the only end to immortality. View quote
Steven Erikson
Like the Soviet regime before it, the Putin government spreads fear by destroying the illusion that one can protect oneself... People who work at two Moscow restaurants have warned me, separately, about the precise locations of listening devices at the eateries. The warnings came unbidden. The food at both places was, incidentally, not only very good but also apparently safe. That, along with the springtime sun, helps maintain the bizarre sense of normalcy that has a way of going hand in hand with the mortal danger that has become a fact of everyday life. View quote
Masha Gessen
With a few grasping, kind words and a modern gimmick, she hoped to breathe eternity into a mortal matter, love. View quote
Grace Paley
No rack can torture me, My soul 's at liberty. Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw, Nor rend with scymitar. Two bodies therefore be; Bind one, and one will flee. The eagle of his nest No easier divest And gain the sky, Than mayest thou, Except thyself may be Thine enemy; Captivity is consciousness, So's liberty. View quote
Emily Dickinson
She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side. View quote
Emily Dickinson
If you had no higher motive than the approval of your fellow mortal, it would do you little good. View quote
Anne Brontë
Since the 1920s, grand illusion on stage has been synonymous with the restraint and mutilation of female assistants, as if the first act a lucky mortal, newly endowed with the ability to overturn the laws of the universe, would wish to carry out would be the casual torture of the fairer sex for our entertainment. View quote
Derren Brown
I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture. (Edgar Degas)
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain... For as long as I love, no woman will ever look on me in love. View quote
Susan Kay
God attracts us to Him by instincts, and desires, and aspirations after a happiness higher than sense, and more enduring, more changeless, than this mortal life. God speaks to us articulately in the stirring life of nature, and in the silence of our own being. View quote
Henry Edward Manning
As long as there is enough strength to reach out to those who come to me, to place my hand on a crying person's shoulder, Amma will continue to give darsan. To lovingly caress people, to console and wipe their tears until the end of this mortal frame-this is Amma's wish. View quote
Mata Amritanandamayi
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. View quote
Lucretius
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity. View quote
Euripides
In war-time on the field or in the fleet, a mortal punishment decreed by a drum-head court - on the field sometimes decreed by but a nod from the General - follows without delay on the heel of conviction without appeal. View quote
Herman Melville
Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell. View quote
Ted Chiang
How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
There are two Mustafa Kemals: One is me, the flesh-and-blood, mortal Mustafa Kemal ... The second Mustafa Kemal,... I can not express it with the word "me”, it is not "me”, it is "we”. That is an intellectual and challenging society, struggling in every corner of the homeland for new ideas, new life and the great ideal. I represent their dream. My attempts are to satisfy the things they long. That Mustafa Kemal is you, all of you. That is the non provisional Mustafa Kemal that must live and succeed. (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
Achilles was the son of a goddess and of a mortal; in that, he is the image of the genius of war. The divine part is all that that is derived from moral considerations of character, talent, the interest of your adversary, of opinion, of the temper of the soldier, which is strong and victorious, or feeble and beaten, according as he believes this divine part to be. The mortal part is the arms, the fortifications, the order of battle - everything which arises out of material things. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
... there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables. View quote
Victor Hugo
Do you promise you won't hurt me?" asked Arthur. "You will be safe from all harm for the space of a quarter hour, as measured by this clock," replied the Old One. "You are mortal enough that I would not slay you like a wandering cockroach, or a Denizen of the House." "Thanks," said Arthur. "I think. View quote
Garth Nix
My thoughts hold mortal strife; I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries Peace to my soul to bring Oft call that prince which here doth monarchise: - But he, grim-grinning King, Who caitiffs scorns, and doth the blest surprise, Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come. View quote
William Drummond of Hawthornden