Quotes About Fragile

Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower, which must be cautiously cared forand protected, from the harsh elementsof "human weather.

It struck both of them that it took so little to either destroy a life or rebuild it. There was only a hair's difference between the two.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

I am... how do the humans put it... broken?

I am too fucking fragile. I hate being fragile.

M?s?iau, kaip sunku iš pirmo žvilgsnio pasakyti, apie k? žmon?s galvoja ir kokie jie pal?ž?.

À l'intérieur, il se sentait un creux immense et douloureux, comme s'il avait eu le cÅ"ur pris dans un étau de glace. Rien ne semblait pouvoir bouger en lui, au risque de briser quelque chose de chancelant, de précaire.

Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time.

On the outside, I appeared in grand shape that season. I was young and in love with a fabulous girl, hanging out at a beautiful, hip spot with true friends. But inside things were fraying and beginning to fragment. A seed of unrest lay behind my smile.

There are, apparently, persons who are deeply afraid of their own emotions, particularly the painful ones. Grief, regret, sadness. Sadness especially, perhaps. Dolores describes these persons as afraid of obliteration, emotional engulfment. As if something truly and thoroughly felt would have no end or bottom. Would become infinite and engulf them. I am saying that such persons usually have a very fragile sense of themselves as persons. As existing at all

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

So quick bright things come to confusion.

Little did I know—once smeared, always vulnerable.

Modern man may deify science and technology and set up a religion of 'Scientific Humanism' which offers the utopian prospect of unlimited progress. But all such constructions are inevitably fragile, since they are dependent on human will as well as intelligence, and we have seen in our own generation how the irrational element in human nature may prove stronger than scientific intelligence.

everything is so fragile. I feel so lost. I live off secret, radiating, luminous rays that would smother me if I didn't cover them with a heavy cloak of false certainties. God help me: I have no one to guide me and it's dark again.

How does it feel to have a daughter? - At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.

The world rolls and somewhere out there are things I don't know. Let us sleep on God and mystery, a quiet, fragile ship floating on the sea, behold sleep.

he thinks that flowers are hauntingly delicate like a sigh of nobody in the dark.

Give me your anonymous hand, for life is giving me pain and I don't know how to go on talking - reality is too delicate, only reality is delicate, my unreality and my imagination are more substantial.

al corazón no se le dan órdenes, decía, el corazón se rompe, y si se le dice que no se rompa se rompe igualmente, como el mío...

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china.

Morning breaks. So do bottles and bones.

How short life must be, if something so fragile can last a lifetime. —KAFKA