Quotes About Frailty

She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.

Outward frailty has a mental origin

Outward frailty has mental origin; in a vicious circle, the habit-bound body thwarts the mind.

Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our Lover, and it separates us from Him and brings death as it wars against His will.

Gwen didn't have to ask about the Fall. It happened to all old people, the Fall. They fell and then everything changed[...]They fell and never quite got up again.

I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable. Failure at this point would destroy him.

Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.

I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs...

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

I wanted to warn my husbands that one couldn't depend on a man who plucked frailty and desire so easily out of his heart. How could he have compassion for the faults of others, or understand their need?

Surely, all his life, Bharat had loved his mother dearly. Surely he realized that what she'd done had been for his sake alone. But today when he spoke of her, there was only disgust in his voice. Could love, which I'd taken to be powerful and everlasting, be so frail as well? Could you pluck it out of your heart as easily as you'd pull a weed from a bed of flowers?

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

if you don't strain the strings, and then try to break them, you'll find it a difficult job; but strain a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it.

He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending.

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

For since we see in Christ some things so human that they appear to share in every aspect in the common frailty of humanity, and some things so divine that they are manifestly the expression of the primal and ineffable nature of the Divine, the narrowness of human understanding is inadequate to cope. Overcome with amazement and admiration, it knows not where to turn.

Het potsierlijk gemorste lopend voedsel, de drinkbeker voor kleuters in de handen van een huilende negentigjarige, de onbehandelbare pijnen, de stoma's, de urinezakjes hangend aan een kapstok naast het bed dat je niet meer verlaat, de nooit eindigende tragikomedie van de ontlasting. Dat ganse bittere repertoire van kots en kak.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

elderly guests were already setting about their business--the business, that is to say, of those who in fact had no business on this earth save that of cautiously steering their respective failing bodies along paths free from discomfort and illness in the direction of the final illness which would exterminate them.

He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him: examples presented themselves to his mind, not only of mental decay, physical weakness, gout, stone and rheumatism, but of boastful mendacious garrulity, intense and peevish selfishness; timidity if not cowardice, dirt, concupiscence, avarice.

Bless you, Jack, an inch of steel in the right place will do wonders. Man is a pitiably frail machine

He turned away and stumped on down the road leaving her to follow. The view from the back was that of an old man, thin, frail, intolerable to live with, intolerable to think of as one day not being there because then she would have nothing to live for herself.