Mortal Quotes

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.