Mortals Quotes - Page 14

• That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

  Ada Lovelace

  Brain, Shows, Mines

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• When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses
  itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Eye, Artist

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1768, e-artnow

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• Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

  Herman Melville

  Ambition, Greatness, Disease

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick”, p.107, Herman Melville

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• I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

  Regina Spektor

  Insanity, Process, Shows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Truth Is, Weak

  Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

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

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Names, Shame

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• By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.

  Melissa Marr

  Dark, World, Emotion

  Melissa Marr (2011). “Stopping Time and Old Habits”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope.

  James E. Faust

  Challenges, Tests, This Life

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• If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

  Edna O'Brien

  Teeth, Sin, Holy

  Edna O'Brien (2011). “Saints and Sinners”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Ideas, Immortal

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

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• Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Passion, Order

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• More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

  John Milton

  Fall, Voice, Evil

  John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.8

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• Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Stars, Stripes, Civil War

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4

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• If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Men, Temptation

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38

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• No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Dawn, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• Love is the simplest of all earthly things.
  It needs no grandeur of celestial trust
  In more than what it is, no holy wings:
  It stands with honest feet in honest dust,
  And is the body's blossoming in clear air
  Of trustfulness and joyance when alone
  Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair
  And claim that Paradise which is their own.
  Amid a universe of sweat and blood,
  Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate,
  Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood
  Of the loud world, in secret ere too late
  A gentle sacrament may celebrate
  Before their private altar of the good.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Hate, Love Is, Dust

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• An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

  Hesiod

  Mean, Fate, Income

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• Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Self, Body

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

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• Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.

  Dinah

  Immortality, Teach, Dies

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• That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Stars, Evil

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through.

  Lucy Larcom

  Autumn, Years, Shining

  Lucy Larcom (1869). “Poems”, p.115

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Moon, Night, Fire

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

  Apollonius of Tyana

  Race, Cities, India

  "The Transition to a Global Society". Book by Kishor Gandhi, p. 17, 1991.

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• When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

  Sivananda

  Heart, Men, Desire

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• The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, War, Blow

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