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Quotes About Fragile treasures

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes things are fragile. That's why they're valuable.
~ E. Lockhart
everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...
~ John Geddes
That wind! ...it called to mind the small, scarce, stemmy flowers that she and Edmund would walk half a day to pick, though in another day they would all be wilted. Sometimes Edmund would carry buckets and a trowel, and lift them earth and all, and bring them home to plant, and they would die. They were rare things, and grew out of ants' nests and bear dung and the flesh of perished animals.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Look not long at what's offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away.
~ Stephen King
Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés.
~ Honore de Balzac