Frail Quotes

164 Frail quotes by 148 unique authors

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream — Cormac McCarthy
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge… — Italo Calvino
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood". — William Shakespeare
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars. — Johnny Cash
Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant. — Diane Setterfield
Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this… — Peter HÃ¸eg
I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting… — Kami Garcia
What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez,… — Jorge Luis Borges
When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing… — David Almond
Iâ€™m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'Iâ€™m cold.' 'Youâ€™re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'Youâ€™re going to be all… — Joseph Heller
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and… — Christina Rossetti
IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never… — William Shakespeare
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. — Virginia Woolf
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… — Louise Erdrich
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. — Cormac McCarthy
I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think.… — John Green
In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers,… — Edgar Allan Poe
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… — Alice Hoffman
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness.… — BrenÃ© Brown
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually… — Don DeLillo

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