(184 quotes found)
“All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.”
C.S. Lewis
“It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough”
Albert Camus
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life”
William Shakespeare
“Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.”
David K. Leung
“Let mortals beware of wordsFor with words we lieCan speak peaceWhen we mean warBut song is trueLet music for peaceBe the paradigmFor peace means changeAt the right time”
W. H. Auden
“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.”
Frank Herbert
“When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box”
Italian Proverb
“Security is the chief enemy of mortals.”
“But in my arms till break of dayLet the living creature lie,Mortal, guilty, but to meThe entirely beautiful.”
“If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.”
William S. Burroughs
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