Isabelle to Jace, pg. 349
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead." - Jace - The Mortal Instruments - City Of Bones”
Variant: Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.
Source: City of Bones
“All the Good of mortals is mortal.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIII: On the Fickleness of Fortune
“This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.”
“All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.”
Love and Death (1975)
Context: If I don't kill him he'll make war all through Europe. But murder... the most foul of all crimes. What would Socrates say? All those Greeks were homosexuals. Boy, they must have had some wild parties. I bet they all took a house together in Crete for the summer. A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates. That means all men are homosexuals. Heh... I'm not a homosexual. Once, some cossacks whistled at me. I happen to have the kind of body that excites both persuasions. You know, some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all, you know... they become lawyers.
“Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed … reminding.”
Toll the Hounds (2008)
Context: Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed... reminding.
“Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal’s hands. Such is the only end to immortality.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 7 (p. 208)
“All men are mortal, he tells us, but some are more mortal than others.”
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)
“No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.”
Solitude of Self (1892)
