Quotes About Fragility

Looking at her always reminded me of a rose that was dripping blood. I always felt it was drawing all the life from inside. Just to look beautiful on the outside.

The basic structure of the universe is balanced on a razor's edge for life to exist

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

It never ended. Even though she'd thought she'd covered her heart with a permanent porcelain shell, he still found a way to chip at it.

He had told her a few weeks ago that being this age was like walking among snipers, that people he cared about were being picked off and there was nothing you could do and no way of telling who was next.

I am apparently not very good at looking after things.

We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human.

I think we all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them?

We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so 'tis easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by; thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down! 2.

What is new today is the premise that students are fragile. Even those who are not fragile themselves often believe that others are in danger and therefore need protection. There is no expectation that students will grow stronger from their encounters with speech or texts they label "triggering." (This is the Untruth of Fragility: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker.)

Many university students are learning to think in distorted ways, and this increases their likelihood of becoming fragile, anxious, and easily hurt.

The dean seemed to believe that if students talked about their suffering, it would harm their friends. It is an illustration of the Untruth of Fragility (What doesn't kill you makes you weaker) trumping common sense and basic humanity.

What is new today is the premise that students are fragile. Even those who are not fragile themselves often believe that others are in danger and therefore need protection. There is no expectation that students will grow stronger from their encounters with speech or texts they label "triggering.

The authors are right to push back hard against the cultivation of fragility and victimhood, and to defend free speech as essential to the mission of higher education.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Did the sudden dark remind you that all of the things we expect to be there for us, to protect us, shelter us, provide for us, are fleeting and finite?

The caretaker was certainly very ancient, a tight and desiccated thing from which all softness and moisture had long since been extracted.