Quotes About Frailty

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

What is the good of becoming strong if love bares your flesh to the teeth of misfortune? Why risk loving anyone or anything when life is so frail a thing that a strong wind can blow it out of your experience?

Second, the post-midlife upturn is no mere transient change in mood: it is a change in our values and sources of satisfaction, a change in who we are. It often brings unexpected contentment that extends into old age and, yes, even into frailty and illness.

If our production process is so fragile that you can break it on your very first day of work, shame on us for making it so easy to do so.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Eccentricity is one of those English traits that looks like frailty but masks a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.

To overcome frailty is one definition of courage; to acknowledge it with honesty is another.

Si no puedo trabajar. En cuanto cargo un peso pequeño, me caigo al suelo. Si me pongo a hacer alguna cosa difícil en seguida me desmayo.

Los dos viejos no tenían expedito y vividor más que el corazón, que funcionaba como una máquina recién salida del taller. Era una aguja imantada, que a pesar de su fuerte potencia y exacto movimiento, no podía hacer navegar bien el casco viejo y averiado en que iba embarcada.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'

That everything human has its origin in human weakness.

I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health.

A friend of his entered the restaurant, looking too, for whatever reason, a little frail. The was an exchange of token 'how are you's and 'oh, all right's. Then Alan said, with a rush of cheeriness, 'Hard work, isn't it - being all right?

'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

What is this growing old, when even the engine that holds our despair and hope in balance begins to fail us.

In her own fumbling way, she'd reminded him he was just a man, fallible, needful, a member of the supremely imperfect human race…and shamefully undeserving of what she had to offer. Looking at Billie, touching her, tasting her, had filled him with a wanting fiercer than any he'd known. For the first time, he was faced with something he couldn't truly have, because of what he'd become.

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Wept for the death of an ardent and immature love that had been unable to bring any comfort or peace to the beloved. And wept for the woman he had taken to wife with such high ideals—the woman who had just killed herself rather than face a final illness with only his arms to comfort her. Wept for his own frailty and infidelity. For his own humanness. He

But this flower comes in the form of a human; it must soon succumb to disease, atrophy, ruined skin, broken teeth, the unbearable frailty of mortality.

He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.