#fatal

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#disease #fatal #first #i #invariably

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER. ↗

— John Green

#cigarettes #fatal-flaw #money

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself. ↗

— Denis de Rougemont

#love #romance #society #love

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#dangerous #dangerous thing #deal #fatal #great

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#fatalism #inevitable #lazy #man #way

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

#culture #false #fatal #forms #growth

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#capacity #compassion #else #fatal #feeling

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. ↗

— William Cowper

#fatal #laid #pleasure #remorse

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#am #any #conservatism #dislike #entertain

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#come #enter #fatal #grave #into