(192 quotes found)
“But in my arms till break of dayLet the living creature lie,Mortal, guilty, but to meThe entirely beautiful.”
W. H. Auden
“When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box”
Italian Proverb
“Security is the chief enemy of mortals.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.”
“Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.”
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
Richard Dawkins
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
R. D. Laing
“Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.”
John Keats
