Quotes About Fragile

She had packed two china teacups, wrapped in paper towels. She would not drink from anything else. He

The air inside the station wagon was cold and fragile. I could see the moist air when he exhaled, and this made me want to palpate my own stony lungs.

Democracy "Democracy is the most fragile thing on earth, for what does it rest upon? You and me, and the fact that we agree to maintain it. The moment either of us says we will not, that's the end of it. It doesn't rest on anything but us; it doesn't rest on armed force, the moment it does it isn't democracy. It isn't something to kick around or experiment with." —Allen Drury, Stanford University (age 19)

He had always thought of civilisation as a machine, cast from rigid iron, everything riveted in its proper place. Now he saw it was a fabric gauzy as a bride's veil. A tissue everyone agrees to leave in place, but one that can be ripped away in an instant. And hell lurks just beneath.

Trust is like glass... Lovely, but only a fool rests lots of weight on it.

There's nothing in this warm, vegetal dusk that is not beautiful or that will last.

But love, he said, love was a fragile blossom; love was a delicate crystal; love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond and if he had been born instead of hatched he would know that without being told!

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go - or got careless and crushed it.

Others are run by people like the man I met in L.A. who too often seem to be playing out their own traumas and internal stigma on people too raw and fragile to argue back.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

Sometimes things are fragile. That's why they're valuable.

Birbirimize dokunmalar?m?z korkak kelebeklerdir, dokununca renkleri y?k?lan.

His ribs were as visible as hands around a cup.