Frail Quotes

• We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Flesh

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.407, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

  John Updike

  Procrastination, Comfort, Vagueness

  John Updike (2009). “In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel”, p.39, Random House

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• How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Pool, Humans

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

  Mike White

  Smart, Writing, People

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• You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast.

  Will Self

  Good Night, Goodnight, Fall

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• The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Broken Heart, Stars, Wish

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• Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Years, Flying

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

  Corazon Aquino

  Light, Media, People

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• The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

  Max Lerner

  Book, Men, Rejection

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Sister In Law, My Sister, Used

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• An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.

  Kim Campbell

  Children, Numbers, Needs

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• To reject the word is to reject the human search.

  Max Lerner

  Censorship In Books, Censoring Books, Purging

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Gertrude, Married

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• People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

  Bruce Campbell

  Sleep, People, Roles

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• I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Strong, School, Directors

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

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• Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Differences, World

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.258, The Overlook Press

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• Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Cancer, Wake Up, Stakes

  "Joni Eareckson Tada, Husband: Cancer 'Bruising of a Blessing' On Our Marriage". Interview with Stephanie Samuel, www.christianpost.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Reality, Understanding

  Subhas Chandra Bose, Subbier Appadurai Ayer, Sisir Kumar Bose, Sugata Bose (1980). “Netaji Collected Works”

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• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Skating On Thin Ice, World, Flu

  "Modern lover". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Frailty, Thyself

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• It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Baby, Men, Support

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Etruscan Places”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

  Helen Suzman

  Receiving, Littles, Nasty

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• The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

  Jacques Derrida

  School, Paris, Sick

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