Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
The Conquest of HappinessDouble standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.
The Education of Henry AdamsSo ‘fatal’ only kills you two out of three times these days? That’s good to know.
Alice in WonderlandBut it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
A&P: Lust in the AislesRomance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Love in the Western WorldSleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.
The Martian Chronicles