(192 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
“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
“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
“Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.”
David K. Leung
“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
“Lord, what fools these mortals be.”
“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
Susan Sontag
“How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.”
John Milton
“I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.”
M. Russell Ballard
