Frailty Quote by Lou Andreas-Salomé

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a…

— James Dean

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done…

— Sigmund Freud

I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had…

— Carl Jung

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself…

— Paulo Coelho

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

— Anonymous

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

— Albert Camus

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the…

— Jack London

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies…

— Ernest Legouve

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery…

— William James

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

— Gautama Buddha