Mortal Quotes

A leader should strive to be an individual of flawless character, technical competence, and moral courage.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.