Mortals Quotes
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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.
George Eliot -
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
Heraclitus
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When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
Bette Midler -
What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
Lord Byron -
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Ellis Peters -
It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.
Emma Bull -
The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.
John Milton -
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
Hannah Arendt
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Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
Homer -
We’re mortals, and you do question your mortality when something like this happens. But he’s over the hurdle now.
Nicko McBrain Iron Maiden -
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 -
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
William Penn -
It used to be felt that you had to know someone in the music business to get into it. It was not for mere mortals like us. This enthused people and enfranchised them to become part of culture.
Peter Campbell McNeish Buzzcocks -
Jesus became mortal to give you immortality; and today, through Him, you can be free.
David Jeremiah
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides -
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
Euripides -
I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.
Homer -
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
Homer -
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
Homer -
Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
William Shakespeare
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What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
Euripides -
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
Homer -
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
Charles Dickens -
There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
Homer