Quotes About Fragile

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

They were old, their covers cracked and their bindings frayed, but as far as Gwendolyn was concerned that only made the words cocooned between their musty pages more precious.

Trust is like money. Hard to earn, easy to lose. -Okiki MIchael

Ich nannte das Glashaus

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

Is there anything else I should know about you?" she asked in a voice that was both serious and teasing, her emotions fragile. "Any other surprises?" "Sometimes I watch Dukes of Hazzard reruns." She

The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

It is singular how long the rotten will hold together, provided you do not handle it roughly.

I'm nearly see-through. Like a jellyfish.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate

He could have broken her in two with one hand, but either she was already broken, or she wasn't going to break.

The message is that riches, power and honour are worthless since they can come and go. No one should base their happiness on such fragile foundations. Happiness has to come from something that is more solid, something that can't be taken away. As Boethius believed that he would continue to live after death, seeking happiness in trivial worldly things was a mistake.

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

there are moments clearly when the seeming solidity of the governance structures are revealed to be rather fragile. And when they are, this is a moment when people begin to call into question all kinds of things about the way in which their society operates. So legitimation crises are extremely troubling moments for governance structures and for elites. As Hall is arguing here, this is invariably the case. And people who want radical change need to be prepared for those moments.

Eve rose stiffly when he strode out of the house. In silence, she watched Julia look after him. The male ego, Eve murmured as she crossed the room to put an arm around Julia's shoulders. It's a huge and fragile thing. I always envision it as an enormous penis made of thin glass.

There was no monster so fierce or so vulnerable as a man's ego.

Your heart is my piñata.

The big wet face settles down on top of my head, and I am lost inside. This is when I'd cry. Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

Flecked and blotched with the stains of decomposition, the linen would trace a rambling journey in which everything you love falls apart.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you. All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog. People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden. People need somebody they can send a check at Christmas. So stay poor. Charity isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

No medium is fragile if it carries the truth.