Mortals Quotes - Page 3

Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Death, Sleep, Thinking

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An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to the consciousness of the mortal form again. By this process, he experiences the body as merely the material dwelling place of the soul. He can remain therein as long as he wants; and after that body has fulfilled its usefulness, he can quit it at will without suffering physical pain or mental pain due to attachment, and enter his omnipresent home in God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Death, Pain, Yoga

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The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Death, Grief, Men

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Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Mean, Ordinary

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

William Faulkner

Life, Wall, Moving

"William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed. it underscores how we're mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger)

Leonard Maltin

Life, Alive, Film

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Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;
Blank misgivings of a Creature
Moving about in worlds not realised,
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

William Wordsworth

Moving, Fall, World

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 146 (1807)

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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

Marquis de Sade

Men, Finals, Wickedness

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Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

John Keats

Love, Agony, Humanity

John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.761, e-artnow

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When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

Adolf Hitler

Destiny, Long, People

Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Generosity, Selfless, World

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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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