Infirmities Quotes

“How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.”
― Theodore Roethke

“Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them.”
― Patricia Mulcahy, It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman

“What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.”
― Joseph Addison

“Everybody here
is infirm.
Everybody here is infirm.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

“Ah, when one has not the gift of rendering one's grief superbly and transforming it into literary or musical passages which weep magnificently, the best thing is to keep still about it.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas