Fatal Quotes
491 quotes by 390 authors
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are…
— Alain de Botton
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Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
— Ouida
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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal…
— Willa Cather
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Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this…
— Nalini Singh
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He seemed to realize she was staring at him, because the cursing stopped. "You cut me," he said. His voice was pleasant. British. Very ordinary.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of…
— Edward Albee
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Beautiful. You can be taught. Makes my job so much easier when you’re actually intelligent. You’d be amazed at the idiots I’ve come across.†–…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you…
— Haruki Murakami
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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
— Thomas Merton
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The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
— Roland Barthes
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And like I said, I didn't know him very well, but my ears perked up whenever I heard his name. I guess I wanted to…
— Jay Asher
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I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
— Haruki Murakami
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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What could be worse…
— Rick Riordan
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The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your…
— Cornelia Funke
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The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve…
— Alain de Botton
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto…
— E E Cummings
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Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.
— Eoin Colfer
Who Wrote These Fatal Quotes
390 authors contributed a total of 491 Fatal Quotes, led by these top contributors: