Quotes About Frailty

She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese.

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always — will always be — there.

they both understood mistakes are made by all and that they should, if everyone is acknowledging our common humanity, our common frailty and propensity for sounding and looking ridiculous a thousand times a day, that these mistakes should be allowed to be forgotten.

Their dicks were their Achilles' heels.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be

Frailty, thy name is woman!

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

It was as if this man whom they had all so greatly admired, and who had endured so much at the hands of the Nazis -a man of exemplary resilience and courage- had by his suicide demonstrated a frailty, a crumbling of character they were loath to accept.

People, generally, suck.

What did an invisible God want from a bunch of frail, selfish people? The only thing Landon could figure was that He'd like for them to learn to love and help one another. Why else would they be living on such a difficult planet?

voler vivere e morire in mezzo agli uomini é segno di grave debolezza

Morning breaks. So do bottles and bones.

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour.

And I ask you—a woman, weak in body, weak in will—can she rule, with all the frailty of her sex?

No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal.

No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal. I hate that most of all.

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Connie looked like a young person who had aged a great deal. She was frail, and moved slowly but impatiently, as if she was driving too slow a car. You could tell that once upon a time she'd been the sort of person who never sat still.

sewn together but always falling apart.

What a frail thing a human being is—and without the Passenger, that is all I was, a poor imitation of a human being. Weak, soft, slow and stupid, unseeing, unhearing and unaware, helpless, hopeless, and harried.