Frailty Quotes

111 quotes by 98 authors

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class… — Cormac McCarthy
Frailty, thy name is woman! — William Shakespeare
I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties. — Marquis de Sade
May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each… — Lisa See
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are… — Khalil Gibran
I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little.… — Lloyd Alexander
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed. — Iris Murdoch
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.… — Saul Alinsky
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
Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that… — Anna Godbersen
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't. — Ava Gardner
Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the… — Joan Didion
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already… — Denis Diderot
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things,… — Jack London
The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation. — Tahir Shah
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and… — Tom Hiddleston
Weâ€™d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves. — Michael Cunningham
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside… — Ian Doescher
It turns out that justices are also Godâ€™s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no… — Mark Levin
By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human… — Frederick William Robertson

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