- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 at it.'
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 human search.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 these societal changes.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 I have lots of muscles.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020