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Mortality Quotes (page 19)

To be, or not to be: that is the questionWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;To sleep: perchance to dream Ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off... William Shakespeare
To bestow on your fellow men is a Godlike attribute--So indeed it is and as such not one fit for mortality;--the giver, like Adam and Prometheus, must pay the penalty of rising above his nature by being the martyr of his own excellence. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island. Neil Gaiman
I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend… I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and Gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend. Neil Gaiman
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to..."
Less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvelous and yet not strange. J. R. R. Tolkien
Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching, I mean you got zapped, kiddo. But that love you felt, that’s just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. That’s just limited little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. Heck, Groceries—you have the capacity to someday love the whole world. It’s your destiny. Don’t laugh. Elizabeth Gilbert
Cornelia Funke quote: "The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed..."
The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core. Cornelia Funke
Homer quote: "They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize."
They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize. Homer
Aphra Behn quote: "Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be. Defence enough..."
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be. Defence enough against Mortality Aphra Behn
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race... Washington Irving
Joseph Campbell quote: "I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary..."
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. Joseph Campbell
Louisa May Alcott quote: "I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for..."
I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man. Louisa May Alcott
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship. Laurence Stern
Alexander the Great quote: "Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal."
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal. Alexander the Great
It was an archaic expression of friendship by an undisciplined man in an age when most men seemed in mortal fear of being mistaken for pansies for even a split second. Kurt Vonnegut

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