Quotes About Fragile

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken

Things were pretty cold-blooded back in Rockdale. That's when my arms were so pretty I could hold them up to the light and see the veins curling all clean and smooth like little blue branches.

Human enjoyment was a fragile skin drawn over a great depth of potential misery

Life is fragile, fleeting, and precious. And to live at all is miracle enough.

How fragile love is. How delicate and small in its first buds, when it's just an idea, a wish filled with hope. It is so easy to turn away from it entirely and choose to live alone in your own private fear. I had one moment of courage, and it changed my life. I didn't turn to love out of loneliness. Or out of habit. I let love change me.

and consequently you are destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken.

Decision making is such a delicate and complex mental process. If causality is only approximate, we don't know where the tipping point lies, where the decision is so fragile that it appears without definite cause.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing... One loud noise, and it's gone.

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

There was something real breakable about Mary Ella and I was always afraid if I touched her in the wrong spot, she'd crack.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I want the night to last forever, and knowing it can't already has made me sad.

The Heart Shattered Glass

Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.

This moment between us, fragile and tenuous, snapped in half. It was over. It would do no good to wonder what he was going to say. Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

I know he's upset about not being able to protect me, but I also know that part of why he's upset is because his pride was injured, and that has nothing to do with me. Is a boy's ego really such a fragile, breakable thing? It must be so.