Quotes About Fragility

And I think the answer is that we are, in reality, terribly frail animals. And we don't like to be reminded of how frail we are—how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay on Earth, and how easily it is ended. So

Perhaps the fact that we bleed to death makes us human.

And I think the answer is that we are, in reality, terribly frail animals. And we don't like to be reminded of how frail we are—how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay on Earth, and how easily it is ended.

If we are gone tomorrow the Earth will not miss us.

You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.

Sometimes the fabric that separates us tears just enough for love to shine through. Sometimes the tear is surprisingly small.

little creatures they were who seemed to have been blown from glass.

Subprime borrowers tended to be one broken refrigerator away from default. Few

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

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

They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded.

Daca ti-as incredinta viata mea, ai scapa-o pe jos. Nu-i asa?

The mole's tunnelled chambers are crushed by wheels, The lark's eggs scattered, their owners fled; And the hedgehog's household the sapper unseals. The snail draws in at the terrible tread, But in vain; he is crushed by the felloe-rim. The worm asks what can be overhead, And wriggles deep from a scene so grim, And guesses him safe

For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke and the earth shall wax old like a garment. And they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worms shall eat them like wool.

There's water in my bones a ghost of a chance

iubirea e atat de mica incat poate sa se strecoare prin ochiul unui ac.

You never take a single day in this league for granted because it can be over in a second.

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.