Mortal Quotes

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams, Long, Deep

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi

Simple, Humility, Enough

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Children, Same

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

God, Ask, Nonsense

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

Life, Power, Human

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Children, Small, Same

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud

Betrayal, May, Him

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw

Eyes, Cannot, Dead

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

Men, Wine, Moral

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.
William Butler Yeats

Soul, Hands, Unless

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
Bodhidharma

Life, Karma, End

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver

Life, Love, Time

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
B. R. Ambedkar

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel Johnson

Beauty, Truth, Strong

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Men, Feeling, Two

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander Pope

Future, State, Knows

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Alexander Pope

Women, Lie, Boldly

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie

Living, Potential, Superman

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana

Faith, Alone, Heart

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison

Death, Fear, Often

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Feelings, Cannot

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

Men, Future, Both

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Virgil

God, Human, Remember

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
Homer

Good, Evil, Blessings

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Aeschylus

God, House, Guilt

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
Sylvester Stallone

Life, Moment, Once

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Sallust

Time, Best, Same

No hero is mortal till he dies.
W. H. Auden

Hero, Dies, Till

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Thoughts, Whatever

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
Adam Weishaupt

Made, Cannot, Oh

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