Mortals

Famous quotes containing the word mortals:

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody’s assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)