“Singing, "Here came a mortal,
But faithless was she:
And alone dwell for ever
The kings of the sea."”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
St. 7
The Forsaken Merman (1849)
“No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.”
Solitude of Self (1892)
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“Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
As quoted in The Duality of Vision : Genius and Versatility in the Arts (1970) by Walter Sorrell, p. 28
“I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Of Isis and Osiris
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
Original: (la) Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59
“Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore
Than ever were lost at sea.”
Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) American poet
With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) (-331–-278 BC) ancient Greek Epicurean philosopher
Attributed to Metrodorus by Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 14, as translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Clement of Alexandria, vol. II, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, vol. XII, 1869, p. 300 https://archive.org/details/antenicenechris05donagoog/page/n314.
“Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortal creatures live dependent one upon another. Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.”
Sic rerum summa novatur
semper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt.
augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,
inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum
et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Sic rerum summa novatur
semper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt.
augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,
inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum
et quasi cursores vitae lampada tradunt.
Book II, line 75 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
