Quotes About Fragile

A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .

There was uncertainty in the air, a feeling that life was suddenly fragile.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Sometimes it's necessary to shame the city's business class, the columnist later remarked, to remind them that a city like San Francisco is more than just a real estate opportunity—it's "a precious, special, fragile place.

life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

You have always been dazzling - the life of every party, the glamour girl who dances until dawn." "Well, I am. But I'm dancing on broken glass. I'm Miss Havisham's wedding cake, Kit. A frothy, expensive, mice-eaten confection. I'm the Sphinx's nose, the fallen Colossus. I'm a beautiful ruin, and it's time that has done the deed.

sparks are fragile things, and they need careful attention.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

Fragile things become undone at a frightening speed.

In terms of power, beauty is like glass, isn't it? Shining, but transparent and easily marred.

Once again, I am translucent. I could break against rocks. I am ten thousand miles down and ten thousand miles across and around and it's too far and too long and too deep, but there is no black-haired body with wide, soft brown eyes looking into mine and seeing exactly who I am.

I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

I am just a broken soul wearing a person as a costume.

La vida es un frágil aliento, el delicado rumor de la seda al doblarse y se va tan deprisa, esfumándose, como los hilos de humo que desprenden las últimas pavesas de la hoguera

In her new, albeit fragile, mood, this letter does not unduly distress her. One lesson she has learned is that any opinion expressed by a person who does not understand how to use an apostrophe may be disregarded with impunity.

To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out.

Her mind is a pink mesh-bag filled with baby toes.

You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith.

When she thinks of this, she feels as tatty as a scrap of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing.

Her body feels like cracked glass, already shattered, and held in place only by a trick of temporary gravity. One wrong move and she will come to pieces.

of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing. She can't

she feels as tatty as a scrap of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

Isn't it really true that life is so beautiful because it's so fleeting and fragile?