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I found her more alluring than any woman I'd known in mortal life. Even — Anne Rice

Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves. — Janet Morris

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Hardly out of mortal danger and already he gets impertinent. — Angelika Rust

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. — Stefan Zweig

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being. — Brigham Young

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When mortals discuss about the eternity,
conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion. — Toba Beta

It did not matter whether he thought she was in mortal danger or simply falling, certain to survive. She fell and he followed.. — Kelley Armstrong

Mortal, yours is a surpassing conceit ... which I cannot but applaud. — Steven Erikson

He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on the spot. — James Goldman

Valkyrie smiled patiently. I like how you do your make-up. Do you use a brush, or just dip your head in the bucket? — Derek Landy

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian McEwan

Take too much time, and time will take you. — Lisa Kleypas

The only real purpose of time is to escort humanity in and out of this mortal coil in an orderly fashion. — Charles Stoll

All men think all men mortal, but themselves. — Edward Young

The nod means 'I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass. — Cassandra Clare

Names are not for the asking, mortal. Names are earned. — Steven Erikson

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies — Josephus

I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her. — Cassandra Clare

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. — Milan Kundera

You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there isn't anything I believe in more. — Cassandra Clare

What mortal knew the way their fate line would run? — Guy Gavriel Kay

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. — George Santayana

Don't look at me like that, Augusta." He stood to pull his shirt over his head. "I don't deserve it. No mortal could deserve such an expression. — Grace Burrowes

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away. — Cassandra Clare

And he realized ... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own. — Nalini Singh

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. — Seneca The Younger

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken — Beverley Cross

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout. — Francois Rabelais

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. — Euripides

There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather. — George R R Martin

Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death. — Shan Sa

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott

Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal. — Neal Shusterman

We mortal millions live alone. — Matthew Arnold

My parents lie somewhere beneath the snow, buried with my mortal life. — Vicki L. Weavil

And the king could find no sleep. Not then, not now, and still he waits to this day in a shell of spent flesh... but they say he no longer dreams. — C.M. Hayden

Enormous? Did you just call me fat? — Cassandra Clare

Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly — Mikhail Bulgakov

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger. — Toni Morrison

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it. — Euripides

It hurts! It throbs with pain, the like of which I never felt the half! Mortal flesh would scream again ... yet demon spirit bids to laugh — Alan Grant

I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me. — Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

Secret of man's Mortality; Man has transformed from immortal to become a mere mortal being all because of our mental love for sex and evil. — Auliq Ice

Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which surpasseth his power! — William Beckford

You can just be your self's stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal! — Sorin Cerin

Music has always been the greatest expression of mortal philosophy," continued Lucky. "The path to enlightenment is found in the lyrics of Spinal Tap. — A. Lee Martinez

At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine's eyes.
"Ave atque vale, Shadowhunter," he said. — Cassandra Clare

if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy — Soren Kierkegaard

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader. — Walter Mosley

His eyes were green. — Cassandra Clare

I practice Dying--every night--
But have not learned to, still--
Though Talented--by Mortal bones--
For such a common Skill. — Alan W. Powers

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive. — Eileen Wilks

Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us! — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.' — Benjamin Graham

Mortal, if there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place on yourself. — Kresley Cole

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then. — Cassandra Clare

O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge. — Dante Alighieri

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. — Mary Baker Eddy

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. — George Eliot

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die. — Swami Vivekananda

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe. — Benjamin Franklin

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. — George Berkeley

The devil prince of this world, but this world don't last so long for mortal man. — Jean Rhys

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA. — Ingvar Kamprad

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances. — Petrarch

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet. — Peter Greenaway

What else but death could you hope to reap when you gave your heart to a mortal? — Cornelia Funke

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! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I may as well shackle my wrist to a bolt of lightning as attach myself to a mortal. — Jessica Khoury

The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end. — Kami Garcia

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying. — Anne Tyler

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres. — Kristin Hannah

The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization. — Abhijit Naskar

Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. — Charles Dickens

I remember playing 'Mortal Kombat' when I was a kid and the other 'Tekken'-style games. — Marie Lu

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood. — Cassandra Clare

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay. — Abraham Lincoln

Yes! In the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live ALONE, — Barbara Pym

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. — Bodhidharma

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe! — Anton Szandor LaVey

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine. — Aldous Huxley

In spring more mortal singers than belong
To any one place cover us with song.
Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng ... — Robert Frost

Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose
something that, if gone, will tear away a part of me. — Jackson Pearce

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. — J. Christopher Stevens

One does not reckon, at such times, the cost to one's limbs and joints; there is a limit to the pliancy of the mortal form. — Jacqueline Carey

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. — Early Wynn

The Mortal Instruments series is a story world that I love to live in. Beautiful! — Stephenie Meyer

Immortality doesn't fit with death,
as mortal doesn't fit with eternity. — Toba Beta

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it. — Paul Weller

I am many things. Stupid is not one of them. Your wrath is impressive for a mortal. — Lisa Kessler

Only you, Sebastian! Only you would get a mortal injury in a lady's bedroom! — Tarun Shanker

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. — Thomas Keneally

God made man mortal and to console this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice. — Caroline Myss