Quotes About Fragile

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

small glass chicken on the windowsill

Pero las expectativas eran como la porcelana fina. Cuanto más fuerte te agarrabas a ellas, más probable era que se rompiesen.

lest she be blown away by a capricious wind.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

sic friatur crustum dulce

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

Life is so fragile; you have to treasure it.

The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don't have them.

During the first year of my cancer treatment, adopting a dog was out of the question. I spent more time in the hospital than out. And in the time I was able to spend at home, I had to live in a germ-free bubble to protect my fragile immune system.

How brittle life is, yet it's been going on for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe we should sit down and pay tribute to life instead of just destruction.

She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.

We were as big as the ocean, but as fragile as an ego.

You can't patch cracks on a glass house.

Peace can be fragile and peace can be ugly and peace can be wrong. Peace built on lies is no peace at all.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Azt hiszem a bizalom a legsérülékenyebb az erények közül; mivel kényes, könnyen törik, és ha egyszer összetört, többé sohasem lehet helyreállítani.

Great Light, the Enemy's power is so fragile! The devils can use only what we ourselves will give them. Do you see? Give them nothing and their power fails; it falls like a spent arrow, like a blade broken and blunted.

All human beings, by virtue of having been born into this world, are immortal beings—not our material bodies; those are sadly quite fragile, inasmuch as they are bound by the laws of matter and time. The spirit, however, is indestructible. It obeys different laws.

I am ancient. I am dust held together by moonlight.