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Quotes About Fragile

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.
~ Tom Sizemore
I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.
~ Josh Silver
We all know how tough children are with toys. It turns out grownups are much worse.
~ Martin Cooper
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.
~ Walter Inglis Anderson
Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return
~ Peter Lerangis
Trust is a gossamer thread, and it takes only a breath of suspicion to break it.
~ Jason Worthley
Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed.
~ Bible
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
~ Alan Rudolph
We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Reality is as thin as paper, girl, and as easily torn.
~ Sheridan Hay
You might be surprised at the strength of the fragile. And for some people it is ordinary life that is most challenging, not so much the extraordinary.
~ Sherry Thomas
Mr. Marbleton tilted his head. "Do you really think of happiness as such a fragile entity?" "Mine is," she answered, still smiling. "I don't know that I've ever been properly happy. I simply careen between moments of intense buoyancy and moments of intense misery. Only my anxiety is constant: When I hope, I'm anxious that my hopes will come to nothing; when I fear, I'm anxious that my fears will all come true.
~ Sherry Thomas
The past is fragile, as fragile as bones grown brittle with age, as fragile as ghosts seen in windows or the dreams that fall apart upon waking and leave nothing behind them but a feeling of unease or distress or, more rarely, a kind of eerie satisfaction.
~ Siri Hustvedt
If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?
~ Franny Billingsley, Chime
Love is like ice in the hands of children.
~ Sophocles
Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat.
~ Eric Gamalinda
A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is far more delicate than love.
~ Hester Lynch Piozzi
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
~ Michael Gambon
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.
~ Richard Siken
Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
~ Nicole Krauss
Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.
~ Dolly Parton
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
~ Josh Billings