Frail Quotes

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust.

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.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

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

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

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

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 inside, no matter how grown-up you are.

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

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 was no way to stop her.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind...

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful.