Quotes about mortal
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"Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182.

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 13, “The Fallen Sun” (p. 307).

The Social Life of Animals (1938), Chapter VII: Some Human Implications.

Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11

Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "Samadhi"

Inexorable http://www.bartleby.com/101/230.html

“Eròtimo cries: 'Not science (I am sure)
nor my poor mortal hands here work your cure.”
Grida Erotimo allor: l'arte maestra
Te non risana, o la mortal mia destra.
Canto XI, stanza 74 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

The Golden Violet - The Haunted Lake
The Golden Violet (1827)

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
October 1, 1938

Quote from Rothko's 1958 lecture at the Pratt Institute; as cited in Mark Rothko, a biography, James E. B. Breslin, University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 28
1950's

The History of Medicine, Surgery, and Anatomy, from the Creation of the World, to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century (1831), Vol. 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=ajBFAQAAMAAJ

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Broken Lights Letters 1951-59.

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 74.

Refusing to recant his ideas, after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for expressing his ideas on religious freedoms (1668 or 1669), as quoted in William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace http://www.quaker.org/wmpenn.html by Jim Powell.

On Being, The Wisdom of Tenderness (transcript) http://www.onbeing.org/program/wisdom-tenderness/transcript/1369 Interview with Krista Tippett, December 24, 2009
From interviews and talks

“I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.”
The Ancient Allan (1920), CHAPTER I, OLD FRIEND

“Singing, "Here came a mortal,
But faithless was she:
And alone dwell for ever
The kings of the sea."”
St. 7
The Forsaken Merman (1849)

Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)

XVIII, 3
The Kitáb-I-Asmá

Lecture IV, pp. 114-115
The Duties of Women (1881)

“So does he strive to rescue your shade from the pyre and wages a mighty contest with Death, wearying the efforts of artists and seeking to love you in every material. But beauty created by toil of cunning hand is mortal.”
Sic auferre rogis umbram conatur et ingens
certamen cum Morte gerit, curasque fatigat
artificum inque omni te quaerit amare metallo.
Sed mortalis honos, agilis quem dextra laborat.
i, line 7
Silvae, Book V

“It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.”
Of those whom God is slow to punish
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

“Whence can we the future learn?
Life to mortals is obscure.”
Odes, XXXVIII. (XXXVL), 19.

Source: King of Siam Rama I "The-Ramayana", p. 28.

Memorandum (4 February 1920), quoted in F. L. Carsten, The Reichswehr and Politics 1918 to 1933 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), p. 68.

Meditation on a Broomstick (1703–1710)
On Charon’s Wharf.
Broken Vessels (1991)

Section 4 : Moral Ideals
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)

“The Fates have given mortals hearts that can endure.”
XXIV. 49 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

Time’s Rub, p. 261
In Alien Flesh (1986)

New Ideas
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

I. H. Bromley, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

There Only Was One Choice
Song lyrics, Dance Band on the Titanic (1977)

"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

letter to Mrs. J.D. Hooker http://www.westadamsheritage.org/katharine-putnam-hooker (19 September 1911); published in The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 17, II; and in John Muir's Last Journey, edited by Michael P. Branch (Island Press, 2001), page 67
1910s

" Love http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Love.html", st. 1 (1799)

Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)

“Much learning shows how little mortals know;
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 519.

“Whilst a Soul supports this mortal Frame,
I never shall forget Eliza's name.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

"Thanks," said Arthur. "I think."
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Superior Saturday (2008), p. 67.

Speech in Birmingham (27 October 1858) referring to the Reform Crisis, quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), pp. 272-273.
1850s

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana

“O thou who art attracted by the Fragrances of God!…” in Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas (1909), p. 730 http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/TAB/tab-573.html
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xx
"The Contest" (1959)

1920s, Address at the Black Hills (1927)

“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 424.
What Does God Want Us to Do About Russia? (1948)

(1836-3) (Vol.48) Subjects for Pictures. Second Series. I. Calypso Watching the Ocean
The Monthly Magazine

The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate

As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106

"Putin's Russia: Don't Walk, Don't Eat, and Don't Drink" http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/putins-russia-dont-walk-dont-eat-and-dont-drink?intcid=mod-yml (28 May 2015), The New Yorker.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 405.

Originally in a sermon delivered at Queen's Cross church Aberdeen, Scotland (26 May 1968), later included in Jesus Rediscovered (1969)

"Bisexuality and the Causes of Homosexuality: The Case of the Sambia"

Source: The Art of Life (2008), p. 32.

“If Men, and Mortal Powers you not regard,
Yet know, the Gods both Right and Wrong record.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.”
Fragment 23, as quoted in Notes on Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus (Global Academic Publishing, 1996), p. 10

'On the Death of my First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips' (1655), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, ed. Elizabeth Knowles (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 575

Sisyphus as translated by R. G. Bury, and revised by J. Garrett
Source: Against the Day (2006), p. 622

1920s, The Reign of Law (1925)

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet

kākakāka kakākāka kukākāka kakāka ka ।
kukakākāka kākāka kaukākāka kukākaka ॥
Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam
(April 2017)[citation needed]
Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"

Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn, st. 14.

“He is too blest that his own Happiness knows,
And Mortals to themselves are greatest Foes.”
Fab. II: Of the Dog and Shadow
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)

La politique au milieu des intérêts d'imagination, c'est un coup de pistolet au milieu d'un concert. Ce bruit est déchirant sans être énergique. Il ne s'accorde avec le son d'aucun instrument. Cette politique va offenser mortellement une moitié des lecteurs et ennuyer l'autre qui l'a trouvée bien autrement spéciale et énergique dans le journal du matin.
Vol. II, ch. XXII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)

Letter to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909), published in The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)