#mortals

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#beings #dead #get #gods #heads

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. ↗

— Jean Racine

#could #escape #eyes #glory #i

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#discontent #imperfection #inconvenience #lot #mortals

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adopt #been #certain #circumstances #determined

So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for what we gods feel. Gods have no words for such things. But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always love left, underneath. Horrible, isn't it? ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#hate #love #mortals #love

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#decided #domestic #fellow #how #know

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. ↗

— Xenophanes

#god #gods #greatest #like #men

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#eyes #find #human #individuality #individuals

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad. ↗

— Sophocles

#ancient #bad #before #call #cannot