Physical Fragility Quotes

At the 2018 Hero World Challenge, I felt brittle. I felt like a gust of wind could push me over if I wasn't careful.

Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

The days when a princess was too delicate to sleep on a mattress with a pea under it are long gone.

Whenever we do wire work, we do look like babies just being, like, dangled.

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

I'm just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Regardless of how tough you think you are, regardless of how good you think your chin is, we're all only one connected punch away from being hurt, and you've just got to hope your chin holds up and your body holds up.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

I was asked if I would do 'Dancing On Ice.' I thought it'd be the perfect way to get fit, lose a lot of weight and learn a new skill. I was actually quite excited, but my team said, 'Absolutely not.' They told me I was far too old and if I fell over I would break something - and then I thought they were probably right.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

I'm as strong and supple as a pane of thin glass. I've got too many ailments - left shoulder, left elbow and left wrist - in fact, the whole of the left arm.

I've always been more slight, and I've always sort of felt that I needed to be protected, especially with so many rowdy brothers and sisters.