A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Aeschylus

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Jean Giraudoux

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Early Wynn

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
Edward Young

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Edward Young

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
Thomas Keneally

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander Pope

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
Sydney Pollack

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Mary Baker Eddy

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Stefan Zweig

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

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
Davy Crockett

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
John Osborne