Alas Quote by William Shakespeare

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

— Anonymous

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

— Susannah Cahalan

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into…

— Christopher Moore

At the end of the day, we're fragile life-forms that shouldn't take for granted our own health or that of our loved ones.

— Ryan Serhant

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

— Theodore Dreiser

Such as we are made of, such we be.

— William Shakespeare

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

— LeCrae

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

— George Saunders

“And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as blood that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind,…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.

— Louis Cozolino

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau