Mortals Quotes - Page 22

• Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

  Heraclitus

  Death, Dying, Immortal Life

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• Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

  Susan Sontag

  Nature, Gun, People

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.

  Janet Morris

  Horse, Pain, War

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• My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Boxing, Realms

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• The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Gratitude, War, Home

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.

  Colin Thubron

  Dream, Adventure, Men

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• I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

  Armand Borel

  Issues, Needs, Enlightened

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• I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Girl, Wine, People

  "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.

  Matt Czuchry

  Two, Wife, Week

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• Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Heaven

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• Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

  Patti Smith

  Remember, Poetry Is

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• Whenever we choose to come unto Christ, take His name upon us, and follow His servants, we progress along the path to eternal life. In our mortal journey, it is helpful to remember that the opposite is also true: when we don't keep the commandments or follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost, our opportunities are reduced; our abilities to act and progress are diminished.

  Robert D. Hales

  Opportunity, Journey, Agency

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• The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.

  Gertrud von Le Fort

  Destiny, Agony, Profound

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• What we feel is mortal, and won't come again.

  Ruth Padel

  Feels

  Ruth Padel (2002). “Voodoo shop”, Vintage

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• The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who anxiously desire to come to dwell here in this mortal state. All the honor and glory that can come to men and women is but a dim thing whose luster shall fade in comparison to the high honor, the eternal glory, the ever-enduring happiness that shall come to the woman who fulfils the first great duty and mission that devolves upon her to become the mother of the sons and daughters of God

  Melvin J. Ballard

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Phrases, World, Poet

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap.

  Arlene Dickinson

  Skills, People, Quality

  FaceBook post by Arlene Dickinson from Apr 09, 2016

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• And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

  Edith Wharton

  Marriage, Pain, Ties

  "The letters of Edith Wharton".

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• You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

  Lev Grossman

  Mistake, Choices, Pennies

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.533, Penguin

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• Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Men, Sky

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.937, Delphi Classics

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• And no renown can render you well-known:
  For if you think that fame can lengthen life
  By mortal famousness immortalized,
  The day will come that takes your fame as well,
  And there a second death for you awaits.

  Boethius

  Thinking, Fame, Well Known

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• How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Government, Law

  "Orson Scott Card: State job is not to redefine marriage" by Orson Scott Card, www.deseretnews.com. July 24, 2008.

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• Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

  Henry Fielding

  Hero, Mean, Ideas

  Henry Fielding (1861). “Tom Jones”, p.478

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• When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

  Lana Del Rey

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Men, Space

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.55, University of Chicago Press

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