Perfect felicity is not the property of mortals, and no one has a right to expect uninterrupted happiness.
Death never comes at the time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.
We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.
The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
.....no man should be without those moments of reality, those experiences that tell him that he is only a mortal and not a god
I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.
Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.
What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!
Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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.
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.
I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
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.
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.
