Quotes About Human frailty

Would no one ever understand—or give him credit for his human—if all too human and perhaps wrong hungers—yet from which so many others—along with himself suffered?

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

The war was the height of human frailty and viciousness, yet I have seen immortal psychopath in the shaving mirror. There is some awful, inherent, self-destructive, race-destructive flaw in man. We pretend we live in a state of history but we don't. We don't even live in a state of nature like animals. We are outsiders - the prowling aliens against whom all the wolf fires have been lit.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)

Even in our perfection we are Broken.

And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away

Stupid, fragile mortals.

we've all sinned; we've all come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23).

We're all sinners. We all hurt each other just by existing.

I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

I'm only human, Odair!

You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is,--though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows.

Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.

It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

We're only human James, bound by flesh and blood to do the wrong thing. ~Lena Jefferson from The Other Sister

Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it everlasting. They focus on awards, achievements, and whatc an be done in their own strength while the Almighty desires to work trough their weakness.

But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Humans are frail in our eyes today, and we secretly wonder whether those with poise and stiff upper lips are merely ticking time bombs. The freak-out allows us to feel we're not alone in our inner panic.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.