I could bear to suffer ... so many have suffered. But why must it be like this? I have not deserved it. I have been true in friend...ship; I have faithfully nursed others in sickness.... Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,... A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,... And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th'access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th'effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war, How to divide the conquest of thy sight;... Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar, My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep, careless, reckless, and fearless of what's past, present, o...r to come; insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not las...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no umpire between us, wh...o might lay his hand on us both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at th...e last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »