Mortals Quotes

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

Kings scarcely recognize themselves as mortals, scarcely understand that which pertains to man, except on the day they are made king or on the day they die. On the former day they feign humility and gentleness, in the hope of capturing the voice of the people. On the latter, having death before their eyes, they confess what is a fact, namely that they are wretchedly mortal.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

Human, all too human.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

Stupid, fragile mortals.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.