#fatal

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. ↗

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#act #arbitrary #atheists #could #creation

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #escaping #fatal #final #greatest

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#best #fatal #first #mental #tact

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#fatal #lost #never #war

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. ↗

— August Strindberg

#fatal #hated #hatred #her #i

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die. ↗