Quotes About Frailty

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

all frail sufferers from the same disease that affected me, all ailing bibliomanes being treated for addiction, as in a literary methadone clinic...

She perceived vaguely the pitiful corruption of the adult world; how cruel and frail it was, like a worn piece of burlap, patched with stupidities and mistakes, useless and ugly, and yet they never saw its worthlessness.

Unrequited love is so frail and weak, it is not as strong as you think because it is only fed by expectation or false hope.

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

I wanted to say something profound, that Julian was only human, that he was old, that flesh and blood are frail and weak and that there comes a time when we have to transcend our teachers.

Love is but a frailty of mind when 'tis not with ambition joined." -Sir Thomas Seymour

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Life is very precious to God. That's why He made it so fragile and so short." "That make absolutely no sense." "Yes, it does. He made it fragile so we would treasure it, just like He does. You're not nearly as careful with your cast-iron frying pans as you are with your good china, are you? God wanted life to be precious to us-so He made it as frail as fine china.

With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans—fickle and fragile and forgetful.

Frail she was, but crafty, with a mind like a spike-toothed

Then Francis became ill. He had always been a delicate child, nicknamed "le Petit Roi

17th, she fell dangerously ill. A few days earlier, she had complained of "spleen.

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

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Morimos con demasiada facilidad.

She is hollowed out, her edges blurred and insubstantial. She might disintegrate, break apart, like a raindrop hitting a leaf.

Such deeds as thou with fear and grief Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall, In youth and health eschew them all, Remembering life is frail and brief.

The Tempter ere th' Accuser of man-kind, To wreck on innocent frail man his loss Of that first Battel, and his flight to Hell: Yet

The short version was death, disease, despots and destruction. The longer version had kept him up wondering what the hell was wrong with people.

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love...We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil.