Top 93 Man Is Mortal Quotes
#1. Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#2. Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.
B.R. Ambedkar
#3. Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.
Sylvan Barnet
#4. I always thought that as long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed.
Woody Allen
#5. Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly
Mikhail Bulgakov
#6. Yes, man is mortal, but that would still be just a minor problem. The bad thing is that he's sometimes suddenly mortal, and that's the whole point! And he can't possibly say what he's going to be doing the same evening.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#7. Yes, man is mortal, but that isn't so bad. What's bad is that sometimes he's unexpectedly mortal, that's the rub. And, in general, he can't even say in the morning what he'll be doing that very same night.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#8. 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!
Mikhail Bulgakov
#9. The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December.
Charles Lamb
#10. No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.
John Ruskin
#11. An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress
W.B.Yeats
#12. O man should be without those moments of reality, those experiences that tell him that he is only a mortal and not a god
Belinda McBride
#13. The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#15. Who shall give a lover any law?' Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#16. Reality wasn't a syllogism like "Socrates is a man - all men are mortal - hence Socrates is mortal," but more like "Helga is a human being - all telephone booths have been vandalized - hence Helga must die." Or like: "Hitler is a human being - all Jews are animals - hence all Jews must die.
Harry Mulisch
#17. She edged closer. "If this is your attempt to scare me away because you think I should be with a mortal man, it's not going to work." She rolled her eyes. "Been there, done that, have the divorce papers to prove it.
Kristen Painter
#18. How can the creation challenge and control the Creator? Oh mortal man, know that there is an immortal God with an immortal power!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.
Irving Stone
#20. A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
George Herbert
#21. When a man is occupied with striving to satisfy his desire and ambition, all his thoughts must be mortal.
Timaeus
#22. He was another person, despite his firm decision and anguished effort to continue to be the same man he had been before his mortal encounter with love.
The truth is that he was never the same again. Winning back Fermina Daza was the sole purpose of his life
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#23. The ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them.
Robert A. Heinlein
#24. Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity.
Jan Hus
#25. Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#26. Probably the greatest challenge and the most difficult thing you will face in mortal life is to learn to control your thoughts. In the Bible it says, as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." Those who can control their thoughts have conquered themselves.
Boyd K. Packer
#27. Man is no star, but a quick coal
Of mortal fire:
Who blows it not, nor doth control
A faint desire,
George Herbert
#28. The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
Agnes Repplier
#30. This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when the soul is found in mortal sin, at that time, it is so monstrous and horrible to behold, that it is impossible to imagine anything equally so.
Catherine Of Genoa
#31. Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.
Samuel Pepys
#33. Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.
Marcus Aurelius
#34. Consider the famous syllogism "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal." So far, so good. But just because all men are mortal, it does not follow that all mortals are men, and it certainly does not follow that all men are Socrates.
Carol Tavris
#35. Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.
Thomas Carlyle
#36. I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that a human being is emanated from a deity.
Haile Selassie
#37. It is not wise for a mortal man to gaze too long into the darkness. He comes to see strange shapes and cold imaginings. He comes to doubt all that he once held true.
Catherine Fisher
#38. A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
John Locke
#39. Hence it is written (Wis. 9:14): "The thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain." Thus man needs to be guarded by the angels. Reply
Thomas Aquinas
#40. Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.
Stephen Leacock
#41. Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner or later. Or to look at it from the social point of view - he's just one man among many, the loss would be well within reason and convenience.
Tom Stoppard
#42. Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.
Theodor Storm
#43. Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God - He sees, hears and remembers everything.
Suzy Kassem
#44. Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
Charles Lamb
#45. The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
Epicurus
#46. You're a Dark-Hunter."
He kissed her lightly on the lips. "What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#47. Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.
Sylvester Stallone
#48. Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,
Thomas Aquinas
#49. There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#50. A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Jean Giraudoux
#51. When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.
S.M. White
#52. The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
George Bernard Shaw
#53. ...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.
Socrates
#54. Though we call God our Father, own Him to be the disposer of all things, and that His word is truth; yet we will not give Him that trust which we give to mortal unfaithful man.
Howell Harris
#55. Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
John Quincy Adams
#56. As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#57. Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.
Garth Brooks
#58. What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.
Saint Basil
#59. We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is only One who can. His is the role of a judge-not ours. If you are prone to criticize or judge, remember, we never see the target a man aims at in life. We see only what he hits.
H. Burke Peterson
#60. Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Sophocles
#61. With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.
Royal Robbins
#62. It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?
Benjamin Franklin
#63. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy
#64. The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.
L. Tom Perry
#65. 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?
Hartley Coleridge
#66. Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.
Pythagoras
#67. There is nothing more important one mortal man can do for another, in the area of restoring health, other than correct vertebral subluxations, step back and allow the innate intelligence of the body to express itself.
Joseph Strauss
#68. What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#69. Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.
Janet Morris
#70. The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.
George Steiner
#71. Thus a man will sometimes suffer half an hour of mortal fear with a robber, but once the knife is finally at his throat, even fear vanishes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#72. Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.
Charles Dickens
#73. Of all my seeking this is all my gain:
No agony of any mortal brain
Shall wrest the secret of the life of man;
The Search has taught me that the Search is vain.
Omar Khayyam
#74. So a man will sometimes go through half an hour of mortal terror with a brigand, yet when the knife is at his throat at last, he feels no fear.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#75. The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly.
Harriet Quimby
#76. Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.
Michel De Montaigne
#77. To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.
Milan Kundera
#78. The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.
Leo Tolstoy
#79. Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.
Mario Stinger
#80. Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
Madeline Miller
#81. Of all the afflictions mortal man must face, it is the torment of guilt that cannot be diminished, neither will it be satisfied.
Randy McWilson
#82. He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.
Brigham Young
#83. Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
George Berkeley
#85. Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
Adam Weishaupt
#86. Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.
George Ade
#88. God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
Barbara Kingsolver
#89. He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.
John Milton
#90. We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.
Francis Of Assisi
#91. Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.
N.K. Jemisin
#93. Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
Sophocles
