Infirmity Quotes

“Our reverence for independence takes no account of the reality of what happens in life: sooner or later, independence will become impossible. Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?”

“The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.”

“It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explaining it through science, doubtless making mistakes, but finding ingenious reasons, hidden grace and beauty, unknown charm and mystery in the various phenomena of Nature. God created only coarse beings, full of the germs of disease, who, after a few years of bestial enjoyment, grow old and infirm, with all the ugliness and all the want of power of human decrepitude.”

“Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.”

“Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.”

“The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.”

“It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.”

“It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.”

“Love heals: there is no infirmity of body, mind, heart or soul that can withstand unconditional love.”