Mortals Quotes - Page 37

• I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

  Paul Weller

  Want, Impossible

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• Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Eulogy, Fame, Has Beens

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Elderly, Hands

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fate, Demise, Deeds

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• The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Son, Creative

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• I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Odds

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• Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Tombstone, Sms, May

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• The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

  Stephen King

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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• It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Mind, Done

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Inspiring, Perfect

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.291, Faber & Faber

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• Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Lying, Dark

  The Fellowship of the Ring epigraph (1954)

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• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  Pablo Neruda

  Goodbye, Ocean, Destiny

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

  James K. Morrow

  Tombstone, Book, Writing

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• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

  George Santayana

  Life, Laughter, Confused

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Faces, Saws

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.112, Om Books International

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• For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Law, Today, Sin

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Years, Water

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.593, Delphi Classics

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• And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

  George Eliot

  Hilarious, Mistake, Males

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.78, Booklassic

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• He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

  Ian Mcewan

  Views, Kind, Affront

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• All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

  Anne Rice

  Enemy, Dawn, World

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.3695, Ballantine Books

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• The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

  Milan Kundera

  Music, Guitar, Idiocy

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• A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before his time. One is mortal. They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless. They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers. They each die fighting the blind god.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Mother, Brother, Fighting

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.1046, Del Rey

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• Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

  Euripides

  Blessed, Wine, Son

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• The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

  Willa Cather

  Prayer, Broken, Grace

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.146, Vintage

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• If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

  Dean Koontz

  Grateful, People, Giving

  Dean Koontz (1999). “Seize the Night”, Bantam

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