Top 100 Mortal Quotes
#1. Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
John Osborne
#2. We do not know, we cannot tell, no mortal mind can conceive the full import of what Christ did in Gethsemane.
Bruce R. McConkie
#3. Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.
Theodor Storm
#4. Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views,
Life's little cares and little pains refuse?
Shall he not rather feel a double share
Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?
George Crabbe
#5. Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.
Chris Dietzel
#6. There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#7. When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
Lana Del Rey
#8. Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.
George Bernard Shaw
#9. I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol,
Thomas De Quincey
#10. Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. 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
#13. When your dream dies, create another dream; don't waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don't stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Michael was an emotional rollercoaster for me, and with each abrupt dip and turn of the car I was in, it seemed as if I might just be hurled out of my seat for a very painful, if not mortal, crash to the ground below.
Zack Love
#15. Its belief in polarizing language and tactics, a militant and militarized foreign policy, and a constant search for mortal enemies, foreign and domestic alike, qualifies the current GOP as a radical right-wing party, not a conservative one.
Mike Lofgren
#16. Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
Woodrow Wilson
#17. The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King
#18. But mortal hearts aren't made for flight, and human bodies are made to break
Lisa Maxwell
#19. I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.
Janeane Garofalo
#20. In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
Gone from the path direct.
Dante Alighieri
#21. I'm not against the concept of Creators/God, I'm against the antiquated beliefs that there are evil things, which are merely axioms we concocted out of our inadequacy as mortal beings, primitive brain, and underdeveloped technology.
Andreas Laurencius
#22. By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the demon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.
Mary Shelley
#23. Phury glanced at John and thought that sometimes it took only a hairbreadth between cars to avoid a mortal accident. Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine.
J.R. Ward
#24. Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.
Jane Rule
#25. 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.
James G. Frazer
#26. 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
#27. I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.
Jasper Fforde
#28. Enough." Titania rose and stabbed a glare of pure poison at me. "We do not need the half-breed, husband. Send her back to the mortal world she is so fond of."
"Sit down. I wasn't finished.
Julie Kagawa
#29. So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.
Charlotte Bronte
#30. A mortal parent may appreciate, in some small way, the feelings of a loving Heavenly Father. When our children come to the age when they must leave our direct care, we feel anxiety for their safety and concern that those who are to help them will not fail them.
Henry B. Eyring
#31. Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Ellis Peters
#32. What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities ... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing ...
Eugene Delacroix
#34. Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
Zebulon Pike
#35. I always thought that as long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed.
Woody Allen
#36. Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!
Don Feder
#37. But it's not healthy!" replied the Hag. "A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?"
"You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever."
"Yeah," sighed the Maid, "but I bet a tenner I can make you cry in half a minute.
Kate Griffin
#38. Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but ...
Richard Bach
#39. You are no longer a weak, susceptible human. You are Shaede, deadly and cunning. Never bow to that mortal weakness again.
Amanda Bonilla
#40. Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
Saint Augustine
#41. Hey, you have a soft spot for the mortal ones. A fascination with all the charming things they do while listening to the tick, tick, tick of their own looming lives. That's fine, that's good, everyone needs a hobby.
Rachel Hawthorne
#42. You have heard, no doubt, those tales in which the souls of the dead are said to walk abroad, but did you ever hear tell of the soul of a living person walking, split asunder from its mortal body?
K.B. Goddard
#43. 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
#44. If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. To be ignorant of the future is a condition of mortal existence, with which one can make terms. To be ignorant of the present, where it concerns the life of those one loves, is an additional burden almost beyond endurance.
Frances J. Woodward
#46. But wait. What blood from yonder mortal drips?" Lord Akeldama misquoted.
Gail Carriger
#47. My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.
Matt Czuchry
#48. A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
#49. I will continue to judge on the content of character and not the shape or color of a mortal coil. My heart demands no less of me, my spiritual peace must be held as the utmost goal.
R.A. Salvatore
#50. Would savor this mortal life while I had it, learn and experience all I could. And when it ended, I would take what I had learned and be a more excellent god and make the world better.
Jo Walton
#51. Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.
Rachel Caine
#53. The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing.
Georgina Anne Taylor
#54. Penelope glared at her, "Madame said that men love damsels in distress. She failed to point out that damsels in distress look wretched, miserable and downright horrid."
"Men do love damsels in distress. We simply need to look lovely while fighting mortal peril.
Anya Wylde
#55. I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia
Ptolemy
#56. The self-defence class was a mixed bunch, chosen because each had once been in mortal danger.
Angie Sage
#57. Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.
Sophocles
#58. Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.
Susan Vreeland
#59. A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.
Kristin Hannah
#60. 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
#61. The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
Plotinus
#62. 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
#63. What are men? Mortal gods.
What are gods? Immortal men.
Heraclitus
#64. 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
#66. Maybe handling her memory every day for five years had made it fade, like the mortal thing it was.
Lilith Saintcrow
#67. His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, he realized. Tiny fingers tickling you from the inside.
Nick Cutter
#68. Magic
Whatever had happened, however it had been freed, Manon didn't care.
That mortal, human weight vanished. Strength coursed through her, coating her bones like armor. Invincible, immortal, unstoppable.
Manon tipped her head back to the sky, spread her arms wide, and roared.
Sarah J. Maas
#69. The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?
Mark Dacascos
#70. Solus walked over to the young brown-haired man and grabbed him by the front of his shirt, ignoring the look of panic he received in return. "You can call me Solus." His golden eyes trailed meaningfully down the mortal's body before he added, softly, "I've been told it's easier to scream.
Nenia Campbell
#71. We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there is an unbroken link between ourselves and the Beloved Mother of the Universe, the Divine Consciousness flowing through and permeating Infinity.
Daya Mata
#72. The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
#73. Don't look at me like that, Augusta." He stood to pull his shirt over his head. "I don't deserve it. No mortal could deserve such an expression.
Grace Burrowes
#74. But you could not blame someone for dying. For leaving on purpose, perhaps, as her brother had left her and her parents, but not for dying, the power over which was surely beyond the grasp of any mortal human.
Cassandra Clare
#75. The Mortal Instruments series is a story world that I love to live in. Beautiful!
Stephenie Meyer
#76. For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.
Aldous Huxley
#77. If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin
Edna O'Brien
#78. Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.
William Macneile Dixon
#79. In spaces too small for light
to crawl I'll hide everything I own.
I'll keep you there for safety.
I'll build a shelter for your
fears. I'll be your own
suicide bomber, a
satellite in the
dwindling
orbits, a
mortal
Om.
Eric Gamalinda
#80. The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life - to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be.
Atul Gawande
#81. 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
#82. Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Konrad Lorenz
#83. How sweet is mortal Sovranty!" - think some: Others - "How blest the Paradise to come!" Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!
Omar Khayyam
#84. I am a father, and sometimes I want to stay close to home. By varying the workplace, it gives me space to breathe. I enjoy theatre because it reminds me I'm mortal, and it's terrifying when it goes wrong but the most thrilling experience when it flies.
Colin Salmon
#85. 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
#86. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
Erwin Rommel
#87. I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.
Peter Greenaway
#88. 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
Patrick Rothfuss
#89. Rosie loved Tom. Rosie had always loved Tom and, although she was unable to measure "always" in terms of years and months, this made perfect sense to her. Their love was not constrained by the mortal bonds of time; it was eternal, ageless and ancient beyond all recollection and record.
Tanya Bullock
#90. THALES. Maybe so. Still, I'll defend a life Lived worthily in its brief time on earth. PROTEUS. A life like yours, yes - it persists Well past the bounds of mortal days. Among the crowd of pale and drifting ghosts 8620 I've noticed you these many centuries.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#91. Love. I think an angel would fear falling in love with a mortal - someone who could be theirs for only a short time and then would slip away forever. He
C.S. Harris
#92. A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Early Wynn
#94. The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.
W. Somerset Maugham
#95. The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
#96. Celestial light, shine inward ... that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
John Milton
#97. 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 then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.
Edgar Allan Poe
#98. I wondered how a soul could feel so tired after only sixteen years on this mortal coil.
Peter W. Dawes
#99. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.
Steven Erikson
#100. Finally, Aamod said, "Finish him." Finish him? What was this Mortal Kombat?
Richard Brown
