Mortal Quotes - page 2

This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight. (Robertson Davies)
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. View quote
Henry Kissinger
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. View quote
Plato
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone. View quote
Kathy Mattea
We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife. View quote
Edwin Arnold
If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires. View quote
John Adams
Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Harry Dresden: On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain. View quote
Jim Butcher
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament. View quote
James Frazer
My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine. (Catherine of Aragon)
Vital spark of heav'nly flame Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying. View quote
Alexander Pope
It is very astonishing that man, being a mortal, can still develop feelings of haughtiness. View quote
Adnan Oktar
If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. View quote
Robert Frost
This world was created from God's fear of solitude. In other words, us, the creatures, have no other meaning but to distract the Creator. Poor clowns of the absolute, we forget that we live dramas for the boredom of a spectator, whose claps have never reached the ears of a mortal. View quote
Emil Cioran
We civilizations now know ourselves mortal. View quote
Paul Valéry
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. View quote
Livy
All the Good of mortals is mortal. View quote
Seneca
For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different. (Zora Neale Hurston)
It's the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl. View quote
Cassandra Clare
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors-and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was-What may the God not do? View quote
Rudyard Kipling