Top 100 Quotes About Mortals

#1. There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

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#2. You're right. So right. My heart is a god among mere mortals. A queen among peons. A rock star among the masses. There's nothing to worry about. Everything will be okay.

Nicole Williams

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#3. Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police - plastic swords versus batons. Percy wasn't sure what that was about, but he and Annabeth decided to keep walking. Sometimes mortals were even stranger than monsters.

Rick Riordan

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#4. Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Paulo Coelho

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#5. We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.

Leo Buscaglia

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#6. I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.

Karen Traviss

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#7. This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.
So shall I vindicate my virgin mother
and reveal myself to mortals as a God,
the son of God.

Euripides

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#8. We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

Robin LaFevers

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#9. The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals

J.M. Barrie

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#10. He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.

Guru Amar Das

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#11. Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering.

Pindar

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#12. I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

Plutarch

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#13. Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

William Drummond

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#14. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Jane Austen

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#15. Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.

Joseph Delaney

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#16. There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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#17. Take courage, Mortal ... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Benjamin Franklin

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#18. Surely you've been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

Sidney Sheldon

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#19. They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

Homer

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#20. It has been forever that people aspire towards liberty and rejoiced averytime they lost it. The mortals never loved with passion except those who handcuffed them . And whom they turn into myth? The executioners of their freedom

Cioran

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#21. You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Karen Russell

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#22. There are only two kinds of Mortals in the backwater town of Gatlin, South Carolina - the stupid and the stuck. At least, that's what they say.

Kami Garcia

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#23. My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Aeschylus

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#24. Hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

Phyllis Bottome

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#25. It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture - the importance of putting me first

Rick Riordan

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#26. For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

Aeschylus

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#27. they shared mortals' reluctance for either reading instructions or calling customer support.

Rick Riordan

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#28. I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you one day. But Logres! The only perfection under heaven would fall if I could not save you.

Suzannah Rowntree

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#29. For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces.

Homer

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#30. Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by
themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for
ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

Eric Temple Bell

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#31. The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#32. Study the scriptures and study the mortals who have been most consistently accurate about the most important things. When your freedom and your eternal welfare are at stake, your information best be accurate.

Ezra Taft Benson

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#33. At least you know about Jean-Luc and Heather, don't you."
"Nay. I was shuffled off to a remote island for four months. I believe that's what mortals do with their unwanted Christmas fruitcakes.

Lynsay Sands

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#34. Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Xenophanes

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#35. Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

Walter Scott

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#36. Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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#37. Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.

Jonathan Kieran

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#38. Yes, Ryn, a woman. A soldier who has taken the heads of gods, escaped from countless prisons and dungeons, and decimated an army of mortals by herself. Do not underestimate her simply because she wears a bra.

Bethany K. Lovell

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#39. That you always need to look closer at people's lives. You can't just assume that just because they have beauty and wealth that they aren't touched by tragedy, heartbreak, cheating, and everything else that plagues us mere mortals. They put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us.

Annie Jocoby

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#40. You were put on this earth to serve a purpose, so don't ever let a loss convince you that there are no ways to win. As long as you draw breath with the rest of us mortals, there is always a way.

Nick Vujicic

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#41. I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

Michael Eric Dyson

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#42. Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.

Edward Young

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#43. The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

Samuel Davies

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#44. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#45. Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time.

Sena Jeter Naslund

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#46. Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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#47. As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.

John Green

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#48. I met Anne in the autumn ... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to kiss faraway Demeter's supple breasts - to set lips to her travel-swollen eyes. They seek goddesses, but I desired only Anne.

Roman Payne

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#49. Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.

Francesco Petrarca

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#50. I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Buddha

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#51. These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take them and their mystic allies to task, bring them their comeuppance?

Janet Morris

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#52. All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

Homer

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#53. So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

Rene Descartes

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#54. What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

Ninon De L'Enclos

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#55. Mortals, screw 'em.

Eoin Colfer

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#56. We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be

Jude Morgan

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#57. At least the statue didn't rumble, "DIE, UNBELIEVERS!" and zap the mortals to dust. Reyna had once dealt with a statue of the goddess Diana like that. It hadn't been her most relaxing day.

Rick Riordan

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#58. Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

A.E. Housman

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#59. Why are mortals always so eager to declare things impossible, anyway? It's not like things do or don't exist just because you say so.

Rachel Aaron

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#60. You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Charles Spurgeon

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#61. It conjured up an image of fate, not blind at all but equipped with sentient 20/20 vision and intent on grinding helpless mortals between the great millstones of the universe to make some unknown bread.

Stephen King

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#62. For in general mortals have a great power of being astonished at the presence of an effect toward which they have done everything, and at the absence of an effect toward which they had done nothing but desire it.

George Eliot

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#63. 17You, LORD, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, 18defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror.

Anonymous

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#64. In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

Francois Rabelais

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#65. They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

Melissa Marr

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#66. What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#67. A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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#68. ...these guys hate to be rejected. They think they've already found their place on Mt. Olympus. Your resting bitch face is reminding them that they're mortals.

Santino Hassell

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#69. Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#70. Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Voltaire

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#71. Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves.

Emma Raveling

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#72. When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Alexander Pope

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#73. She was handed more personality than other mortals, and chemically fertilized in a glasshouse - now her bionic strength allows her to teleport platters of watercress sandwiches from the kitchen to the library, where she's beating her friends at backgammon.

Jardine Libaire

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#74. As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#75. For what can more partake of the mysterious than an antipathy spontaneous and profound such as is evoked in certain exceptional mortals by the mere aspect of some other mortal, however harmless he may be, if not called forth by this very harmlessness itself?

Herman Melville

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#76. Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare

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#77. Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Michael Scott

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#78. Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies

Edward Gibbon

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#79. We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

George Washington

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#80. If there is one thing I have learned in my life, and I grant I have not learned much, it is this: Neither Fair Folk nor mortals know what love is or is not. No one does.

Cassandra Clare

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#81. Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.

Kami Garcia

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#82. Composing mortals with immortal fire.

W. H. Auden

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#83. I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

Daniel Webster

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#84. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

Herman Melville

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#85. You should know by now that love is never a weakness, Ares. Love is the mortal world's greatest strength.

Gina Ardito

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#86. We all know there's many kinds of life that live in the air, on the earth, or in the water. And we, poor mortals, have not the power to understand the like of some of them.

Robert D. San Souci

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#87. While he lived on and on, freezing and thawing, these mortals went through routines, lived and died, unaware that he even existed. 'It's

Hugh Howey

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#88. Death breached the silence first. 'Mortals are always calling for me,' he said, 'Especially mortals whose suffering is very great, and especially mortals whose suffering is of their own making, and especially mortals who have never known suffering.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

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#89. Youth is a mortal wound.

Katherine Paterson

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#90. We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Moliere

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#91. A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

Tom Brown Jr.

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#92. I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Mike Tyson

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#93. (Useful fact: mortals rarely look up.)

N.K. Jemisin

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#94. Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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#95. Down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went
and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past
the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel
where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home

Homer

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#96. A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.

Margaret Mead

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#97. On nights such as these the gods, as has already been pointed out, play games other than chess with the fates of mortals and the thrones of kings. It is important to remember that they always cheat, right up to the end ...

Terry Pratchett

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#98. In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

Sarah MacLean

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#99. Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one - so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim - the greater man.

Homer

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#100. Immortality is not as much of a gift as mortals would believe. It can breed monsters that even you would be sick to learn about. Imagine the sadists you've encountered - and then imagine them with millennia to hone their craft and warped desires.

Sarah J. Maas

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