Fatal Quotes

491 quotes by 390 authors

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of… — Thomas Jefferson
Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough… — Booth Tarkington
there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your… — Jodi Picoult
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from… — Franz Kafka
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of… — Philip K. Dick
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the… — Marquis de Sade
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a… — Alan Watts
For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat,… — Stephen King
Why would you help us? (Delphine) I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if thatâ€™s true or not. If… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack… — Rick Riordan
The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't… — Seth Godin
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where… — Albert Camus
Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw… — Jay Asher
Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had… — Anne Fadiman
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he… — Albert Camus
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of… — Fernando Pessoa

Who Wrote These Fatal Quotes

390 authors contributed a total of 491 Fatal Quotes, led by these top contributors: