Mortals Quotes

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.