Frail Quotes

164 Frail quotes by 148 unique authors

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. — John Gardner
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or… — E E Cummings
When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at… — Jean Genet
At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill. — Stephen Schwartz
We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go outâ€¦we… — Erich Maria Remarque
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our… — Veronica Franco
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those… — Alexandre Dumas
The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery… — Rick Bass
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. — Ben Jonson
How frail you are. I donâ€™t want to hurt you by accident. (Nykyrian) Iâ€™m not as frail as I appear. I know from lots of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Wolves donâ€™t socialize with humans. You guys tend to freak out when you learn what we are. Not to mention, your females are rather frail.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect… — Ray Bradbury
My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind — Tana French
O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all â€“ worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with… — Unknown Author
We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. — William Shakespeare
Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good,… — Ellen Hopkins
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private… — Theodor Adorno
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. — Diane Setterfield

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