Quotes of: Fatalism Keyword

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Walter Savage Landor

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Brooks Atkinson

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive i...

Aidan Gillen

Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

Canaan

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

Fatal Bargain

So, what you’re basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family.

The Flaxen Femme Fatale

But that’s the thing about dead people: they can’t warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.

Front Page Fatality

Life, here I come!' he said. And was immediately and fatally run over by a bus.

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

Joan D. Vinge

Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you.

44 Days of Leadership

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Killosophy

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.

A Room of One's Own

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

The Secret History

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

The Treasury of David, Volmes #1-3

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

The Third World; Country or People

Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations...

The Undiscovered Self

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of...

Aubrey de Grey

I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.

Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me