Mortals Quotes - Page 19

• When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Past, Worry, Alive

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.75, Macmillan

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• 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, Goes Around Comes Around

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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• A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Heaven, Matter

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• Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

  Horace

  Father, Oxen, Agriculture

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• The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Race, Weakness, Dizzy

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• MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Knights, Feet, Soldier

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

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• Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Quality

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• Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Disease, Chords, Tales

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• The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.

  George Santayana

  Fate, Artist, Men

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.357, 谷月社

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• For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Age, Birth

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• No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

  Walter Raleigh

  Bears, May, Bribery

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.715

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• Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

  Stephen Leacock

  Men, Sight, Giving

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.106, McClelland & Stewart

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• To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

  Aeschylus

  Fortune, Fortunate

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Choëphoræ, 60), 1922.

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• Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.

  Hesiod

  Eye, Design, Spy

  Hesiod (1822). “The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII”, p.43

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• Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Grieving, Voice, Leader

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• There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wise, Mind, Restless

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Song, Thinking, Long

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.264

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• As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Fear, Roots, Evil

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• Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Time, Thinking, Soul

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• Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Simple, Errors, Feeling Alone

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries" edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, (p. 241), 1972.

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Live Life, Men, Self

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• I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Laughing, Sin, Conscious

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• And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mother, Queens, Pain

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• There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.

  John Muir

  Dog, Perfect, Profound

  John Muir (1990). “Stickeen”, p.15, Heyday

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