Mortals Quotes

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

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.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

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

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.

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.