Human Frailty Quotes

In the long run we are all dead.

The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.

Politics is irrational. Politics is about human beings with their frailties and perversions and distortions or perception, who prioritise things according to their conviction.

Any man can be defeated.

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Kings scarcely recognize themselves as mortals, scarcely understand that which pertains to man, except on the day they are made king or on the day they die. On the former day they feign humility and gentleness, in the hope of capturing the voice of the people. On the latter, having death before their eyes, they confess what is a fact, namely that they are wretchedly mortal.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

I don't think I'm invincible.