Mortal Quotes

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

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

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.