Frail Quotes

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)
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. View quote
Giotto di Bondone
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. View quote
John Updike
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. View quote
Sylvia Plath
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. View quote
Edith Wharton
Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. View quote
Francis Bacon
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. View quote
Ben Jonson
In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw. View quote
Moses Hess
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. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
Flowers ... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their colouring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children-honoured as the jewellery of God only by them-when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world. (Thomas Pynchon)
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. View quote
Aristophanes
Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? View quote
William Cullen Bryant
God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed. View quote
Louis Pasteur
Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
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. View quote
Murasaki Shikibu
I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. View quote
Albert Einstein
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. View quote
Albert Einstein
And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke.Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street! (John Betjeman)
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick. View quote
Suzanne Somers
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. View quote
Alice Hoffman
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. View quote
Corazon Aquino
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. View quote
Bruce Campbell