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

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
Joseph Rotblat

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.
Regina Spektor

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Potter Webb

If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
Mark Helprin

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
John Woolman

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Virgil

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel Johnson

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
Magnus Magnusson

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
B. R. Ambedkar

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Konrad Lorenz

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Elizabeth I

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Edmond Halley

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Alexander Pope

No hero is mortal till he dies.
W. H. Auden

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Sallust

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
Pliny the Elder