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Quotes About Fragile

Try not to let your mind wander ... it's too small and fragile to be out by itself.
~ Denise Swanson
Thank you," Skulduggery said to her. "I fear he was about to start insulting me." "I couldn't let that happen," she said. "Your ego is a fragile and delicate thing." "You see? You understand me.
~ Derek Landy
Scientists are a cold-blooded bunch. Standing by while innocent people are killed, while the power you so generously donated is twisted and warped by the fragile little minds of the ordinary people. I can't believe you thought your plan would ever work. - Darquesse, to Argeddion
~ Derek Landy
The fragile ego of a poor leader can not resist the urge to tug at the delicate fabric of good order and disipline thus unraveling their own true nature.
~ Donavan Nelson Butler
This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
They moved carefully, as though their bodies were brittle glasses – glasses without bottom – waiting to be shattered
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Globe in hand, Grace slowly approached the big orchid, white and fragile and absolutely gorgeous. She very carefully slid the globe over it, and as she was doing so, she put her face into the center of the open flower, smiling as the breathtaking fragrance washed over her- luscious and nectared, candied apricots, airy notes of strange spice.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
The Humpty Dumpty statue on top of the clock topples to the ground and cracks.
~ Jen Calonita
Modern ballet costumes are very delicate, and some cannot even be washed at all. These costumes are hung up to air out and sprayed with freshener.
~ Jenna Jones
Can't you see that the courage to risk, to dare, to toss that gold coin up in the air over and over again, win or lose, is what makes humans human? They are fragile, doomed creatures, blinder than worms yet braver than the gods.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
As I turned to go, I nearly trod on the body of a young robin half hidden in the grass. Its wings were twisted and bent. Its body stiff and bloodied. 'A hawk's work,' I thought, wondering if the robin had seen the brilliant blue of the sky and felt the sun on its back before its wings were broken.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Life is fragile. Life ends. But love? Love lives forever.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
You think life is the vanquisher of death? It is not. Love is. Life is Fragile. Life ends. But love? Love lives forever.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Life is fragile. Life ends. But love? Love lives forever,' she told him. "Rémi wept then, like a child. From that day, little by little, he returned to us. Love brought him back.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Her face was fragile and mischievous, pale enough to absorb hues from the world around her-purple, green, pink-like a face painted by Lucian Freud.
~ Jennifer Egan
you're not a player, kid. You're the glass ballerina—or the knife.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I told you, kid," Nash said beside me. "You're not a player. You're the glass ballerina—or the knife.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
This family--we destroy everything we touch.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
This is the single loveliest thing anyone's ever done for me. It's movie lovely. It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I wand the night to last forever, and knowing it can't already has me sad.
~ Jennifer Niven
Tais-toi, rêveuse ! Tu me fais trembler ... Tu te briseras les os, en retombant sur terre.
~ Émile Zola
He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.
~ Emily Bronte
Perhaps such fragile happiness could never have lasted, but the way it came to an end was worse than anyone could have imagined.
~ Emily Bronte
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
~ Emily Dickinson
open me carefully
~ Emily Dickinson