Quotes About Fragility

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

It's one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we're all human at the end of the day. We all got feelings... all of that.

The infirmity of human nature renders all plans precarious in the execution in proportion as they are extensive in design.

Parfois lorsque je me promène en été, je m'aperçois que j'ai failli marcher sur une espèce de mouche. Je la regarde mieux : c'est une reine fourmi. [...] Combien de cités furent ainsi anéanties, d'un simple coup d'essuie-glace sur une route d'été ?

I want to see things that I would never want to have happen to anyone I love. They remind me just how precious life is; how it dangles.

Man himself is so buffeted by shifts of thought and mood, not knowing from one day to the next what he truly feels, that a shifting earth is well-nigh the last straw.

I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.

life can end in less time than it takes to draw one breath.

black, and become infested with maggots—thus the inability to sit astride

Oh, don't mind Humpty. He's inhaled a hell of a lot of super-glue.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

All it takes is one punch, one big punch, and that could wreck everything for me.

What will I do if I find myself with a heart? Lose it constantly, I imagine.

Life is a very cheap thing here. Cheap and dear all at once, said the rose from her grave. That's the thing. You'll figure it out sooner or later.

How brave that had made her feel, and how vulnerable too.

How like a spoon with a razor edge is human need.

La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles.