Quotes About Frailty

It's just us. We're pitiful, that's all. The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.

He saw that for the rest of his days, frail, racked, but enduring, he would live in the face of a purifying terror. A feeble cry, a last impossible protest escaped him. But the Holy Ghost, emblazoned in ice instead of fire, continued, implacable, to descend.

Había enflaquecido extraordinariamente en pocos días. La piel amarilla, pegada a los huesos planos del rostro, le daba la apariencia de un tísico. Más tarde la autopsia reveló que estaba ya avanzada la enfermedad en él.

una vida triste, llena de pequeñas mezquindades, algunas hechas sin ni siquiera mala intención.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

Although he was already suffering from dysentery and needed to be carried in a litter, John consoled himself with a feast of peaches and cider, which did nothing to improve his health.

Alexander Dumas, pere, whose son created the most famous consumptive of all in La Dame aux Camelias, observed in 1847 that "frail pale women come to Nice to die," and he criticized the townsfolk for "living at the expense of the sick foreigners.

but mortal man was helpless there…

A heavy weight fell on Jo's heart as she saw her sister's face. It was no paler and but littler thinner than in the autumn, yet there was a strange, transparent look about it, as if the mortal was being slowly refined away, and the immortal shining through the frail flesh with an indescribably pathetic beauty.

How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

el cuerpo que nos enferma y que acaba por matarnos, ese maldito cuerpo traidor que de repente se queda cojo, y se terminaron para siempre las montañas; o que hace crecer insidiosamente, en el laborioso silencio de las células, un tumor maligno que te va a torturar antes de asesinarte; o que resbala y se rompe tan fácilmente

Era una pizca de persona, una mínima momia de boca desdentada y ojos encapotados por el velo lluvioso de la edad.

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize how frail we truly are."-Skyla (from Twiceborn)

The old man, wrapped in a large black doublet, in which the whole of his slender body was concealed, was brisk and dry. His little gray eyes shone like carbuncles, and appeared, with his grinning mouth, to be the only part of his face in which life survived. Unfortunately the legs began to refuse their service to this bony

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

And if poetry is a bond between Two hearts, it is a bond too frail: That night words failed, I, too, was lost— To whiskey, memory, a photograph.

Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.

Humanity is worse than flies.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.