Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
Fear is the fatal killer of desire.
Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. . . , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!
You smile. No, it is not fatal.
Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.
. . . She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
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 more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
Action without study is fatal.
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.
I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.
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 volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it means to be a human being; how you react and are reacted upon, these inward and outer pressures. If you are writing with a direct cause in mind, you are writing propaganda. It's fatal for a fiction writer.
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.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.