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We will not speak of separation / While the frail hours grow less. / Nothing shall mar the brief perfection / Of our togetherness.
Walk gently — Jane Merchant

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength. — Margaret Way

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring. — Thomas Overbury

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are. — Abraham Lincoln

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. — John Gardner

Oh, don't look at this frail, old druid like that, Solomon. I may be slow in my movements, buy my mind is sharp as a dagger's tip. Lazerin smirked. — Madison Thorne Grey

Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust. — Hilda Doolittle

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die. — John Milton

I'm a little frail girl, but I like being tied up, blindfolded and gagged so you can't move. — Katie Price

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre. — Sallust

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. — Horace

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. — Joni Eareckson Tada

What a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)! — Richard Baxter

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground. — Pat Conroy

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu!
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. — Walter Raleigh

The strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires ... — John Geddes

For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. — John Milton

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable. — Alan Cohen

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? — Morag Joss

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. — Giotto Di Bondone

He's a pig," whispers May, her frail body wavering in the firelight. "An ugly pink pig. And I think the pig needs to be butchered. — Mav Skye

Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look. — Jeffrey Eugenides

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Bryant McGill

By the essence of their nature, which was frail, all human beings were probably doomed to be seasick. — Eudora Welty

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time. — Michael Clarke Duncan

Again, I tried to not let it bother me, but the ego is frail, fragile tender thing. — S.C. Stephens

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. — Sallust

Great Heaven! How frail thy creature Man is made! How by himself insensibly betrayed! In — Matthew Gregory Lewis

Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength. — Alexis Carrel

The secrecy of our existence is the key to our survival. The existence of a frail human will never stand upon that.'
Lothaire — Rita Dinis

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. — Diane Setterfield

Monsieur, please stay back. You are old and frail, and I would not have you hurt in this clash. — Paul Tobin

Our lives mean so much more than the frail bodies that carry them. — Pierce Brown

Be 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

I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy. — Marianne Curley

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes. — Rabindranath Tagore

He said, 'Don't mind what happened to me. Don't be angry. I'm a frail creature with certain crude reflexes. — Elizabeth Knox

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight. — James Michael Pratt

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man. — Matthew Henry

But at midnight - strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin - then came the messenger. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot. — Jennifer Melzer

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over. — Hosea Ballou

Ours is a lank country
and on the naked edge of her knife
our frail flag burns. — Pablo Neruda

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass. — Philip Sidney

Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being. — Mary Doria Russell

The beast in me
Is caged by frail and fragile bars. — Johnny Cash

An angry woman is a bitch. An angry man is strong, whereas, a sad man or a fearful man is a wimp. A sad or fearful woman is frail. — Irene Tomkinson

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant. — Diane Setterfield

The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind. — Anthony Liccione

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun. — Aubrey De Grey

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. — R. Scott Bakker

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. — Virginia Woolf

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant. — Michel De Montaigne

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself. — Thomas A Kempis

I say the Gospel is frail because we are frail. — Martin Luther

O'Baarni. He looked so frail and weak, like the starving — Michael-Scott Earle

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to. — William Shakespeare

Frail but never weak. — Paul Kalanithi

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest. — Michel De Montaigne

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

The true structure of the church is the Kingdom of God, and this is neither frail nor like a tent in any way. But — John Calvin

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson

We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe. — John Green

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass. — Sara Teasdale

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. — Thomas A Kempis

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter. — Margaret Deland

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. — William Shakespeare

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. — Cormac McCarthy

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. — Suzanne Somers

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. — Rabindranath Tagore

They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel. — Betty Smith

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. — John Updike

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity — Edith Wharton

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've always wished to make a god. — Pierce Brown

The frail letters on the first page were barely legible; they looked like whispers, if whispers had form. — Susan Meissner

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God. — Lionel Suggs

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death. — David Whyte

Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

They think of me as a rich bitch, a frail little toy. Little do they know that I'm not a toy, I'm a storm. And I'm going to rip their lives apart. — L.J. Shen

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction. — Mark Twain

How frail the bloom, how short the stay
That terminates us all!
Today we flourish green and gay,
Like leaves tomorrow fall. — John Clare

How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds! — Charles Dickens

The only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time. — John O'Donohue

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. — Murasaki Shikibu

Well, and what was there in that?
Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig? — Anne Bronte

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic. — Vance Havner

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler

Words are meager things, frail and fickle squandered by the privileged tongue — Olsfred James

If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower. — Philip Freneau

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words. — Ruhollah Khomeini

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance. — Haruki Murakami

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. — Corazon Aquino

What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete! — D.H. Lawrence

I had a brief glimpse of a frail, mature man carrying a ravaged child in his arms... — Muriel Barbery

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years. — Ovid

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. — Ben Jonson

It is notable that when she is not condemned for being too bold and masculine, Cleopatra is taken to task for being unduly frail and feminine. — Stacy Schiff

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful. — Brownell Landrum

Real life is pockmarked and frail and deeply satisfying. The media image of life is sanitised and glossy and dissappointing. — Stefan Szczelkun