It wasn’t only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan’s presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single,...

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying...

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him...

We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God’s plans for our lives…then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

I’m not a big gamer, really. I used to play back in the day – ‘Mario Brothers,’ ‘Mario Kart’ and ‘Mortal Kombat.’

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

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

The world suddenly opened up, and she was coming to new realizations and a greater awareness, concerning the nature of reality, and the world, which her mortal mind had previously been unable to conceive. She...

Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn’t quite grasp.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

I had a dream about you. You introduced me to a clock, and I’m right handed, so I didn’t know which clock hand to shake, the hour or the minute. So I chose instead to...

Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they’d built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized...

A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:–”The good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no...

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

This guy has a look on his face like he’s just realized that one day he will most assuredly die. Killing someone has a way of focusing our minds on our own mortality. I mean...

Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue Royale, and with its windows open to the courtyard below. I was in fact looking...

Dancing should transcend hobby, it should be a ritual, a meeting point between mortals and immortals.

Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.

The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God’s mind, then what chance of...

The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below an abandoned building where I kept the iron coffin in which I lie.This is no unusual...

Keep your words. This pain is no life.” “You only feel pain because you’re alive, boy!” the keeper thundered. “This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff....

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate...

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

Death is every mortal’s life to be alive!

He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday...

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don’t know how lucky you are

“Holy shit, I’m going to die!” Sorry, I just turned thirty yesterday, so my mortality is on my mind.

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world...

I can still make a fist, and breath still burns in my chest. So look at my face. Look at my mortal soul, and remember it. You did not crush me, and you will have...

The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories.

This isn’t the work of our people, Delilah. It’s a corruption of power. The gods are neutral, good and evil manifests in the deeds of mortals.”Or, just maybe– The power is our own and the...

The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in a way that comforts. She is mischief but then she is the warmth...

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

Just because I’m in love, doesn’t mean I think about her 24/7. No, I only think about her 23/7, because I need an hour a day to contemplate my mortality.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Such a pity, really; the prey falling for the predator. The victim in love with the killer… A mere mortal girl thinking a demon was capable of love.

Robert Ingersoll’s character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be… none sweeter or nobler had ever blessed the world. The example of his life was of...

Agatha was a woman. All women are mortal. Therefore, Agatha must be dead.” -Orafoura