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Quotes About Mortal

You're a Dark-Hunter. He kissed her lightly on the lips. What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Death comes to all of us in the end.
~ John Larkin
If it is mortal, I can slay it. And it must be mortal." "How can you be sure of that?" she asked. "Because it wears a helm," he said imperturbably. "Immortals have no need of armour. It wears a helm because it does not want a cleft skull.
~ John Maddox Roberts
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)
Does a Prince of Faerie love a mortal man?" "It's not encouraged.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Light had failed and with it its children, but these other children-the mortal children, candle-flickers-continud endlessly fighting and dying and returning their blood to the wash of the sorrowful sea. The mortals had a saying, that blood was thicker than water. But to Muire blood was water: the water of the ocean, and the force of the Light upon it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Fae should know better than to love mortal men.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Relationships with the blood put a strain on mortal partners, and though Sebastien tried to spread the burden, he worried.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We're looking for a mortal man to seduce and betray. Your speciality.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Lucifer's halo filled the grim little room with light, and he seemed suddenly more beautiful than ever. Something fragile and almost mortal, unreal, outlined against the sweating stone.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He [Zachary] knew now that every kind of life and situation holds somewhere within it for the finding its own kernel of quiet, each small possession of mortal peace a symbol of the eternal fortress and a door to it. He would be able to hold on now through the months of storm, remembering the days of peace at the heart of them to which the way was sure.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Omnes vulnerant, postuma necat. Todas hieren, leyó. La última mata.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The fresh complexion of former days was gone. A mortal pallor covered those features, which he had known so charming and so gentle, and sorrow had furrowed them into pitiless lines and traced dark and unspeakably sad shadows under her eyes.
~ Gaston Leroux
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Valor' is a word we don't commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But 'valor' connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.
~ William Barr
Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.
~ Don Winslow
Liberation from the enslaving desires of the senses, and the reactions of the mortal mind is the aim and purpose of human life"-
~ Sai Baba
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
~ Sallust
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.
~ Robert Breault
I mean only respect when I say that your mother has always struck me as someone with whom the Lord might have chosen to spend some part of His mortal time
~ Marilynne Robinson
There in the dark and the quiet I felt I could forget all the tedious particulars and just feel the presence of his mortal and immortal being.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Maybe it was a consequence of reaching the end of the end, finding out the dark, mad, gleaming tale had concluded the only way it could in the real world--with mortal people doing mortal things, a father and daughter, facing their deaths.
~ Marisha Pessl
The hour of courage has struck on the clock …', ran Anna Akhmatova's poem at that moment when the very existence of Russia appeared to be in mortal danger.
~ Antony Beevor