Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
When I think of the Savior, I often picture Him with hands outstretched, reaching out to comfort, heal, bless, and love. And He always talked with, never down to, people. He loved the humble and the meek and walked among them, ministering to them and offering hope and salvation. That is what He did during His mortal life; it is what He would be doing if He were living among us today; and it is what we should be doing as His disciples and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
For [D. H. ] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.
A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.
The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.
The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.