Mark Akenside Quotes

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

Food is as important to armies as ammunition—but more important than either is an unfailing supply of lies. You simply cannot murder your enemy in the most efficient manner if you know he is in every essential the same kind of a man as yourself.

O man, of whatever country you are, and whatever your opinions may be, behold your history, such as I have thought to read it, not in books written by your fellow creatures, who are liars, but in nature, which never lies

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to Fourteen: - O man! place not thy confidence in this present world.

We cannot see but a small depth into the heart of man, and can only discover the work of his tongue.

I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.

I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.

I always tell people, 'I have more respect for somebody with no money and class than somebody who is trash and makes $1 billion.'

The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.