The fatal futility of Fact.
Often it is fatal to live too long.
The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.
The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.
Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.
So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.
Success in never final; failure is never fatal
Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.
Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men
In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.
Lack of charisma can be fatal.