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Quotes About Fragile

It takes time to establish trust in something or someone because it requires consistent and continuous behavior demonstrated over time. That is why our relationships are so fragile. It may take months or years to establish a high level of trust, but one act of unfaithfulness can destroy it. We can choose to forgive those who betray us, but it would take a long time to regain the trust that was lost.
~ Neil T. Anderson
Sometimes it seemed that half the people around her were in states of collapse.
~ Unknown
La fantasia è crudele, sia sovrappone alla realtà come carta velina.
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
La fantasia è crudele, si sovrappone alla realtà come carta velina.
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate.
~ Nick Sagan
Beginnings are delicate times.
~ Nicola Griffith
Peretur wanted to reach out and touch her hand, but Nimuë looked brittle enough to fall apart. So she just waited.
~ Nicola Griffith
The world felt rude and fragile and new as though she had lately risen from her sickbed.
~ Nicola Griffith
Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
~ Nicole Krauss
But what good is living if the life you lead is brittle and dead?
~ Noah Hawley
Sometimes there is nothing to hold me together.
~ Unknown
civilization will always be a tenuous affair that must be taught in each generation and is always, at most, one generation deep.
~ Norman Doidge
I stopped in the sloping market square, and gradually I felt flooded by a powerful sense of communion with the people passing by. Each man was my brother and each woman my sister. We were so very much alike. So fragile, impermanent, and easily destroyed. We trustingly went to and fro beneath the sky, which had nothing good in store for us.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Every body part deserves to be remembered. Every human body deserves to last. It is an outrage that it's so fragile, so delicate. It is an outrage that it's permitted to disintegrate underground, or given the mercy of flames, burned like trash.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
This heart, Longing for you, Breaks To a thousand pieces- I wouldn't lose one.
~ Ono no Komachi
Why did you vanish Into empty sky? Even the fragile show, When it falls, Falls in this world.
~ Ono no Komachi
I was a petal quivering in the slightest breeze, about to fall any moment. Even the slightest insult made me think of dying.
~ Osamu Dazai
And like unoccupied heart's home, You'll fill the fragile shell, With wind, with whispers of the foam, And fog, and rain as well…
~ Osip Mandelstam
encontré una tacita de porcelana que se había caído de un poste. Recordé que cuando eramos chicos las rompíamos con la honda y eso me dio un poco de tristeza. Sin saber por qué me la guardé en el bolsillo y la fui acariciando con los dedos mientras pensaba en los tiempos del colegio, cuando creía que tenía una vida por delante.
~ Unknown
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
~ Ovid
Beauty is a fragile gift.
~ Ovid
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
~ Ovid
Community can teach us that our grip on truth is fragile and incomplete, that we need many ears to hear the fullness of God's word for our lives.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Early flowers in tubs shivered in the wind
~ Unknown