Quotes About Fragile

The Titanic woke them up. Never again would they be quite so sure of themselves. In technology especially, the disaster was a terrible blow. Here was the "unsinkable ship" -- perhaps man's greatest engineering achievement -- going down the first time it sailed. But it went beyond that. If this supreme achievement was so terribly fragile, what about everything else? If wealth mean so little on this cold April night, did it mean so much the rest of the year?

Biblionekromantik ist keine Religion, eher das gegenteil. Sie haben lediglich ein morbides Verhältnis zu Büchern. Ihnen können die Schwarten gar nicht alt und zerbrechlich genug sein.

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks

Life is life," Meegosh shouted over the grumbling crowd. "Life is precious.

Everything is fragile; everything is breaking.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Wie lieb und luftig perlt die Blase Der Witwe Klicko in dem Glase.

my life comes apart like a love letter in the rain.

I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn't be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it.

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Nothing is indestructible. Anyone who believes otherwise is already halfway to being defeated.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

She was thin, but not too small. Maybe five and a half feet tall, from what he could tell. She looked like she could be fifteen or sixteen years old, and her hair was tar black. But the thing that had really stood out to him was her skin: pale, white as pearls.

Another pop, this time followed by the tinkle of glass sprinkling on the floor.

The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.

Thin and pale as a starved poet

I remembered the words particularly: Somebody pulled a thread of the fabric and it all dissolved.

L'amour c'est comme du mercure dans la main. Garde-là ouverte, il te restera dans la paume ; resserre ton étreinte, il te filera entre les doigts.

Iubirea e ca mercurul in mana. Tine-o deschisa si iti va ramane in plama; strange pumnul si iti va curge printre degete.

Lilacs blossom just as sweet Now my heart is shattered. If I bowled it down the street

La principale differenza tra una cosa che potrebbe rompersi e una cosa che non può in alcun modo rompersi è che quando una cosa che non può in alcun modo rompersi si rompe, di solito risulta impossibile da riparare.

Then the man's a wreck—all to pieces. His hand's too shaky to print letters clearly like this.

He's pretty old. Probably more or less ga ga.