Quotes About Frailty

Her alanda as?l yenilgi unutmakt?r, özellikle de sizi neyin gebertmiÅŸ olduÄŸunu unutmak,insanlar?n ne derece h?rt olduklar?n? asla anlayamadan gebermektir.

Frailty. Sweet, treacherous acquiescence. Bird docility. You became a woman with me. I was almost terrified by it. You are not just thirty years old—you are a thousand years old.

La tercera edad no es una lucha: es una carnicería. Cada día trae un nuevo dolor y con él una nueva capitulación

But my darling was as frail as a bird. She died nine days later. After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. Although

Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

Anch'io tratto il mio cuoricino come un fanciullo malato: gli è permesso ogni capriccio. Non dirlo in giro, però: c'è gente che me ne farebbe un rimprovero.

In this respect the frailty of the human mind is surely proved: even when it seems to follow the way, it limps and staggers. Yet the fact remains that some seed of political order has been implanted in all men. And this is ample proof that in the arrangement of this life no man is without the light of reason.

tired and received a weak,

He wasn't strong. He was weak. The weakest thing in the world. A man who lives only for himself

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

We aren't always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who don't always do the wise thing.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. —Troilus, in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

Back then, I say, you could have died easily as he, all those frail geniuses died of syphilis or TB.

Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.

But inasmuch as things human are frail and fleeting, we must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return; for if goodwill and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life. For me, indeed, though he was suddenly snatched away, Scipio still lives and will always live; for it was his virtue that caused my love and that is not dead.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again. I mean the world looked different forever after, and even in moments of exquisite happiness there was the darkness lurking, the sense of our frailty and our hopelessness.

I'm falling into disrepair

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

Wolves don't socialize with humans. You guys tend to freak out when you learn what we are. Not to mention, your females are rather frail. I don't like having to hold back for fear of bruising or killing my partner when I mate. (Vane) And people think I speak my mind. Jeez. You will just say anything, won't you? (Sunshine)

How frail you are. I don't want to hurt you by accident. (Nykyrian) I'm not as frail as I appear. I know from lots of experience that I bounce really well. (Kiara) I would kill anyone who hurt you. (Nykyrian)