Frail Quotes
On fragility, honesty, and how briefly life holds together.
These lines sit with human fragility rather than avoiding it: a heart described as a frail, mirrored pool of thought, or a cancer diagnosis reframed as a stark reminder of how brief and breakable life really is. One speaker argues honesty about being frail connects with people more than pretending otherwise.
People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
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Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh...
Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
Able Quotes
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?
My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.
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...
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...
Ale Quotes
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.
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.
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...
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or,...
Always Quotes
My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.
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.
Since I was a kid, I've always been skinny and frail framed. I felt powerless as a child, but I always saw so much power in femininity and female sexuality.
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.
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Another asks a harder question, where fragile people go to survive events life throws at them, without easy answers. For related reflections on strength and struggle, see Beat quotes.
