Mortally Quotes

#1. Beloved, no sin of a believer can now be an arrow mortally to wound him, no condemnation can now be a sword to kill him, for the punishment of our sin was borne by Christ, a full atonement was made for all our iniquities by our blessed Substitute and Surety.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Connie went away completely bewildered. She was not sure whether she had been insulted and mortally offended, or not.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island. (4th February 1945)

Adolf Hitler

#5. You can ascend to the region of blue sky and great wandering shadows. The shelter that received the risen Christ and Port in The Sheltering Sky, that comforted the mortally wounded Prince Andrei and the young W. E. B. Du Bois.

Nell Zink

#6. General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

Edward Everett

#7. As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

William Wallace

#8. The grey of a bitter, starved-looking morning. The town like a mortally wounded creature, torn by shells, gashed open by bombs. Dead streets - streets of death - death in streets and their houses; yet people still able to sleep and still sleeping.

Radclyffe Hall

#9. As far as I can tell, it doesn't make any difference to adults how clever children are. They always stick together. Unless you are sick or dying or mortally wounded, they will always side with the other adult.

R.L. LaFevers

#10. You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

Jules Renard

#11. Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

Emily Bronte

#12. Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.

Louisa May Alcott

#13. What wounds a man mortally is living with a woman,
sharing her bed, and knowing he is not loved. Not even
esteemed. Knowing, that in the eyes of the woman he has
chosen above all others, he is nothing. Nothing at all.

Germaine Shames

#14. Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.

Herman Melville

#15. My Corolla, sorry to report, was mortally wounded in the attack. There were no funeral plans at this time.

Heather Webber

#16. With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

Buffalo Bill

#17. I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

Joanna Newsom

#18. Love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye!

Herman Melville

#19. A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

W. A. H. Rushton

#20. The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

Alexander Pope

#22. Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?"
"What?" He looks mortally offended. "Do I look like the kind of guy who's never had a girlfriend? Have you even met me?

Tahereh Mafi

#23. Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Erica Jong

#24. People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

Bryant McGill

#25. Ha ha, imagine Winter singing! I wonder if he can scowl and sing and look darkly handsome and mortally offended all at the same time. Probably.

Tui T. Sutherland

#26. How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

Elizabeth Smart

#27. Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

Ernest Hemingway,

#28. God is not identified with the world, for he made it; but God is not separate from His world, either. For He made it.

Joseph Sittler

#29. Of course, he had no control whether the news he brought was good or bad.

Melanie Furlong-Riesgo

#30. Life is about giving yourself away in the service of others. Life is not about living just to live.

Debasish Mridha

#31. It takes a lot of good songs to write a great song!

Sydney Sierota

#32. Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.

Girish Kohli

#33. I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.

Pete Townshend

#34. The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.

Vidal Sassoon

#35. I'd give just about anything if I could make you care," he said. "Especially about me.

Dia Reeves

#36. Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down ... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!

Tennessee Williams

#37. Oh. Shit. I breathed, arms shaking as I tried to push myself up, failing. That's okay. It's nice just to lie here.

Kim Harrison

#38. My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

Richard Simmons