Mortal
Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
Fatally vulnerable; vital.
Of or pertaining to the time of death.
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.
A being subject to death; a human being; man.
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Mortal Quotations
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.
John F. Kennedy
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis
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 at every pore.
Sigmund Freud
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander Pope
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Alexander Pope
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw
Mortal Translations
mortal in Dutch is sterfelijk
mortal in French is mortel
mortal in Italian is letale, mortale
mortal in Latin is moratlis, letalis, letifer
mortal in Spanish is mortal
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