13 Quotes About Frailty

One of the greatest things about being a human is our ability to learn and grow. We can change our own minds, take on new challenges, and improve our lives, while growing wiser and stronger over time. But no matter how good we become, we’ll never be able to escape the inevitable effects that time, illness, or old age have on us. In the words of the great wisdom collected in this collection of frailty quotes, we can all learn from our experiences and move forward with a renewed sense of purpose.

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..[A]ll the elements which belong to the notion of happiness are altogether empirical, that is, they must be borrowed from experience, and nevertheless the idea of happiness requires an absolute whole, a maximum of welfare in my present and all future circumstances. Now it is impossible that the most clear-sighted and at the same time most powerful being (supposed finite) should frame to himself a definite conception of what he really wills in this. Does he will riches, how much anxiety, envy, and snares might he not thereby draw upon his shoulders? Does he will knowledge and discernment, perhaps it might prove to be only an eye so much the sharper to show him so much the more fearfully the evils that are now concealed from him and that cannot be avoided, or to impose more wants on his desires, which already give him concern enough. Would he have long life? Who guarantees to him that it would not be a long misery? Would he at least have health? How often has uneasiness of the body restrained from excesses into which perfect health would have allowed one to fall, and so on? In short, he is unable, on any principle, to determine with certainty what would make him truly happy; because to do so he would need to be omniscient. . Immanuel Kant
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Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man? Robert Louis Stevenson
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They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot. Jennifer Melzer
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Frailty, thy name is human! Marty Rubin
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The nightmare they banished — a thing of darkness and misery, born of their fears, bloated on their hatreds. They did not — could not — understand it's true essence: the mark of a divinity, broken and scattered among them. Much like the souls of men. Grant Smuts
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We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out. Erich Maria Remarque
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If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman Munia Khan
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You are human and fallible. Unknown
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How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought. Sylvia Plath
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The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward. Dillon Burroughs
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Frailty thy name is woman! William Shakespeare
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An amiable weakness. R. B. Sheridan