Mortal

Famous quotes containing the word mortal:

    “And deep into her crystal body poured
    The hot and sorrowful sweetness of the dust:
    Whereof she wanders mad, being all unfit
    For mortal love, that might not die of it.”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)