Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man with an ability to grasp the infinite to exist only for a day! No no man was made for immortality.

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

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

But blind to former as to future fate what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Friendship like the immortality of the soul is too good to be believed.

To her audience Janis Joplin has remained a symbol artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

And what do Democrats stand for if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

There is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes and are upon a footing with them.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That addressed as free-born autonomous men and women of God-given dignity they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear by childish faith and by cowardice.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do to save the people and the failure was not my fault but the fault of others.

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

My friends whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.

Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering fearing doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

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