Mortals Quotes - Page 31

• If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

  William Blake

  Eye, Imagination, Mind

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• Love loves for ever,
  And finds a sort of joy in pain,
  And gives with nought to take again,
  And loves too well to end in vain:
  Is the gain small then?
  Love laughs at "never",
  Outlives our life, exceeds the span
  Appointed to mere mortal man:
  All which love is and does and can
  Is all in all then.

  Christina Rossetti

  Pain, Love Is, Men

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.648, Delphi Classics

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• He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

  William Blake

  Eye, Light, Stronger

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.541, Univ of California Press

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• Tourism is a mortal sin.

  Werner Herzog

  Tourism, Sin, Mortal Sin

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• O momentary grace of mortal men,
  Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Grace, Religion

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.854, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the  light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

  Sivananda

  Prayer, Heart, Light

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• There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

  Irving Stone

  Men, Trying, Thrill

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear.  God is a human being without human limitations who is read into the heavens.  We disguised this process by suggesting that the reason God was so much like a human being was that the human beings were in fact created in God's image.  However, we now recognize that if was the other way around.  The God of theism came into being as a human creation.  As such, this God, too, was mortal and is now dying.

  John Shelby Spong

  Makeup, Heaven, Dying

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• You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Waste, Patient, Poor

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• We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.

  John McNally

  Athlete, Dying, Lucky

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• [Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

  Richard Tarnas

  Men, Self, Views

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• God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

  Robert Genn

  Light, May, Pigment

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• Thus the sum
  Forever is replenished, and we live
  As mortals by eternal give and take.
  The nations wax, the nations wane away;
  In a brief space the generations pass,
  And like to runners hand the lamp of life
  One unto other.

  Lucretius

  Hands, Space, Giving

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.214, Delphi Classics

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• Now come: that thou mayst able be to know
  That minds and the light souls of all that live
  Have mortal birth and death, I will go on
  Verses to build meet for thy rule of life,
  Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.

  Lucretius

  Sweet, Light, Long

  Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

  Heraclitus

  Rivers, Substance, Steps

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• I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile and limited creatures like you and I. I am against the idea of clean, clearly distinct epochs in the history of philosophy or indeed in anything else. I think that history is always messy, contingent, plural and material. I am against the constant revenge of idealism in how we think about history.

  Simon Critchley

  Revenge, Philosophy, Thinking

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• You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in the image of heaven. The gods can't do their work without us. So let's be bold, in their cause and in our own. It's our job, we humans, to make manifest that which is unmanifest-and to raise into consciousness, in this material dimension, that which had been known before only in heaven.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Heaven, May

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• Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.

  Dante Alighieri

  Oneness, Unity, Principles

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• The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

  Anne Rice

  Share, One Thing

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.677, Ballantine Books

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• Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Departed, Platitudes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.183, University of Georgia Press

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• I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.

  Eric Zorn

  Daughter, Father, Cancer

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• An Animated Cartoon Theology:
  1. People are animals.
  2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain.
  3. Life is antagonistic to the living.
  4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music.
  5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning.
  6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.
  7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Pain, Smart, Animal

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• When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Men, Light

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• Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

  David A. Bednar

  Adversity, Suffering, Needs

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• What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Soul, Trying

  "Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers". Book by Ann Evory, 1982.

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