Frailty Quotes - Page 6

• There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.

  Bruno Schulz

  Integrity, Reality, Trying

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• C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

  Robert Adams

  What Matters, Way, Belief

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body’s frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You’ve in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.

  Heather King

  Prayer, Writing, Heart

  Heather King (2015). “Stripped: At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture, and Christ”, p.38, Loyola Press

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• Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

  Christopher Morley

  Thinking, Avid, Humanity

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• Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty,
  climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Blessed, Sea, Pieces

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• Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Nature, Heaven, Inspire

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Mistake, May, Excuse

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• My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving Up, Acceptance, Blow

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• We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not taught how to speak to our difficulties and challenges. We're taught the Pythagorean theorem and chemistry and biology and history. We're not taught anger management. We're not taught dissolution of fear and how to process shame and guilt. I've never in my life ever used the Pythagorean theorem!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pythagorean Theorem, Challenges, Guilt

  "Iyanla Vanzant interview for fourth season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 6, 2014.

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• Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

  Edward Kennedy

  Giving, Faults, Common

  "Transcript of Ted Kennedy's Funeral Service" by The Kennedy Family, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2009.

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• Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Eye, House

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.71

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• I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

  Justin Broadrick

  Hands, Professionalism, Proficiency

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.

  John of the Cross

  Complaining, Speak, Should

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• 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 is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

  William James

  Reality, Men, Hands

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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• A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might....Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character.

  Ellen G. White

  Ignorance, Character, Perfection

  Ellen G. White “Steps to Christ—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.

  Jane Hirshfield

  People, Grace, Saving

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

  Stanley Kunitz

  People, Knows, Inadequate

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• Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

  John Ross Macduff

  Kindness, Bears, Harsh

  John Ross Macduff (1855). “The mind of Jesus”, p.59

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• It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Lonely, Superhero, Overcoming

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Healing, Ignorance, Imperfection

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• But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil? You do not know the depths of human frailty. . . Oh, how truly was it said that if some Christian women could only suspect the temptations and falls they cause in others with modes of dress and familiarity in behavior, which they unthinkingly consider as of no importance, they would be shocked by the responsibility which is theirs.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Fall, Responsibility

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• Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Inspirational, Men, Justice

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.113

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• 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 blue. I myself placed her ashes in the wall. I myself saw the cathedral doors locked at six. I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her.

  Joan Didion

  Wall, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.134, Knopf

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• 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. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

  Saul Alinsky

  Fear, Mean, Love Is

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• Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Flesh, Obesity

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 3, l. [184]

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