Mortals Quotes

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ignorance, Eye, Mislead Us

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• Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

  Euripides

  Wise, Wisdom, Second Thoughts

  Euripides (2015). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.250, Xist Publishing

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• Lord, what fools these mortals be!

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Stupid People

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 115

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• You are my queen. I’ve spent nine centuries seeking the mortal who would free this court, who would save my best friend’s son, who would save the lives of the rest of the girls who were not you. I’d die before I’d allow harm to you.” He bowed his head.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Queens, Son

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• Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

  Aeschylus

  Wisdom, Prosperity, Enough

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• 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

  Cheer, Believe, Fate

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• Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Mother, Nature, Heart

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.156, University of Toronto Press

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Dream, Art

  "The Raven" l. 25 (1845)

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

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Wisdom, Heaven

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gnats, People, Ordinary

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.

  Zoroaster

  Sensual, Religion, Divine

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

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Genius, Want

  In Dag Hammarskj"ld Markings (1964) foreword

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• Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Long Distance Relationship, Nature, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

  C. S. Lewis

  One Day, Would Be, Serious Things

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

  Steven Pressfield

  Work, Artist, Entrepreneur

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.67, Black Irish Books

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• Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.

  William James

  Nature, Science, Flames

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Memories, Hate

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• There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gnats, People, Religion

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.

  Kami Garcia

  Black And White, White, Black

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• Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

  Charles Dickens

  Christian, Regret, Mean

  Charles Dickens (1997). “Best Ghost Stories”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Destiny, Blind

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.126

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• Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thee, Universe

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no idle hours; there are only idle people. In true righteousness there is serenity, but there is an array of reminders that the "sacred present" is packed with possibilities which are slipping by us, which are going away from us each moment.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  People, Serenity, Balance

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• Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

  Euripides

  Dies, Ifs

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• O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,
  That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;
  Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,
  Their names without a record are forgot,
  Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust
  Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust;
  But he whose name is graved in the white stone
  Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Kings, Men, Dust

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.381

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