Feeble Quotes
267 quotes by 218 authors
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The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own,…
— Brandon Mull
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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
— C.S. Lewis
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To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us…
— Albert Einstein
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is…
— Alfred de Musset
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Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan
— Daniel Keyes
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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you…
— Sylvia Plath
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We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked…
— Janet Fitch
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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
— Sylvia Plath
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There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies…
— Fernando Pessoa
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A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
— Anais Nin
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But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of…
— George MacDonald
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of…
— William Shakespeare
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She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble,…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with…
— Wilson Rawls
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Fine. Sit around being inconsiderate asses…and you wonder why none of you are married. (Zarina) (Sway cleared his throat meaningfully.) Oh, shush. You don’t count.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words,…
— Thomas Hardy
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is…
— Louisa May Alcott
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