Quotes About Fragility

Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

One of the earliest memories I have of my father is of him urinating... What must it be like, I wondered, to unleash so much power through so flimsy an attachment?

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

With careful searching, with careful attention, you might tip the balance toward opportunity and against obstacle sufficiently so that life is clearly worth living, despite its fragility and suffering.

Susceptibility to despair, disease, aging and death is universal. In the final analysis, we do not appear to be the architects of our own fragility.

Nuestras insignificantes debilidades se acumulan y multiplican, y se convierten en grandes males de Estado.

Quizá, si viviéramos como habría que vivir, no tendríamos problemas en reconocer nuestro carácter frágil y mortal, sin caer en el victimismo ofuscado que genera primero resentimiento, luego envidia y, finalmente, deseo de venganza y destrucción.

Her house was built on a foundation of sand. The ice she was skating on was simply too thin. She fell through, into the water below, and is drowning.

What we perceive, when things fall apart, is no longer the stage and settings of habitable order. It's the eternal watery tohu va bohu, formless emptiness, and the tehom, the abyss, to speak biblically—the chaos forever lurking beneath our thin surfaces of security.

Era tan guapa que dolía. Una muñeca todavía perfecta, al borde de la rotura que la vida y la miseria le impondrían.

Tem certas flores, você já reparou?, que são belas e perfumadas enquanto estão nos galhos, nos jardins. Levadas pros jarros, mesmo jarros de prata, ficam murchas e morrem.

Hay ciertas flores, ¿ya lo ha notado?, que son hermosas y perfumadas mientras están en los tallos, en los jardines. Cuando se las pone en jarrones, aunque sean de plata, se marchitan y mueren.