You smile. No, it is not fatal.

“You smile. No, it is not fatal. --from "The Other", written 2 July 1962”

— Sylvia Plath

Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect,…

— Sylvia Plath

Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all…

— Edmond Rostand

“So...what are you delivering today -- pizza or death?" "Both, actually.  Pepperoni for you now, and a fatal aneurism to the woman in room…

— Rachel Vincent

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

— Denise Levertov

Reverence is fatal to literature.

— E. M. Forster

Success is never final; failure is never fatal

— Conrad Hilton

The fatal futility of Fact.

— Henry James

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

— Eoin Colfer

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

— Mark Twain

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

— W. H. Auden

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

— Elizabeth Pisani

“Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.”

— Steven Magee

“The habit of thinking in terms of comparison is a fatal one.”

— Bertrand Russell

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

— Carson McCullers