Mortals Quotes - Page 38

• Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Mad, Cupid

  "The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions".

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• Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

  Paulo Coelho

  Party, Blow, Perfect

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Believe, Imagination

  "Rant". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Taken, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

  Homer

  Pain, Way, Odyssey

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.48, Penguin

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• the only mortal sin is giving up.

  Stephen King

  Giving Up, Sin, Giving

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Book, Men, Dust

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.308, e-artnow

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• And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise

  Jack Kerouac

  Moving, Fall, Angel

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• This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Perfect, Joy, Ifs

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Life's Tragedy”

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• We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Encouragement, Heart, Mean

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• A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

  James Joyce

  Angel, Errors, Way

  James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Prayer, Long, Effort

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

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• Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.

  James E. Faust

  Uplifting, Challenges, Purpose

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• Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

  Rick Riordan

  Monsters, Sometimes, Horrible

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Children, Men

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Drama, Men, Ordinary

  "Salman Rushdie Spins a Yarn". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. June 2, 2008.

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• It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.

  Emma Bull

  Heart, Expected, Ifs

  Emma Bull (2004). “War for the Oaks: A Novel”, p.251, Macmillan

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• Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

  Robert Frost

  Play, Heaven, Needs

  Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem (1992). “Robert Frost: Seasons”, Mjf Books

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• This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.

  Robertson Davies

  Theatre, Taxation, Admission

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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• You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Strong, Moments, Weak

  Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon (1995). “The Black Gryphon”, p.26, Penguin

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• Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Wisdom, Love You

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• What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Real, Order, Romance

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.157, Vintage

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• Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Sweet, Land

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Heart, Desire

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

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