Fatal Quotes

491 quotes by 390 authors

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is… — Norman Mailer
Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and… — Deb Caletti
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. — Oscar Wilde
Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures.… — Rex Stout
Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment,… — Jodi Picoult
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. — Benjamin Franklin
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do.… — Marvin J. Ashton
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil… — William Sloane Coffin
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing… — George Carlin
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with… — Alexander Pope
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him. — Charles Dickens
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four… — Scott Lynch
Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it. — Cassandra Clare
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or… — Jonathan Swift
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like… — Haruki Murakami
Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who… — Roland Barthes

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