Quotes About Fragility

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

One imagined these barrel organs, beautifully painted, carried on the backs of little grey old men, whose indistinct faces, corroded by life, seemed covered by cobwebs – faces with watery, immobile eyes slowly leaking away, emaciated faces as discoloured and innocent as the cracked and weathered bark of trees, and now like bark smelling only of rain and sky.

fragilità d'un paese dove le due grandi parti sociali, gli imprenditori e i salariati dell'industria, non considerano lo Stato come cosa propria, ma come cosa estranea, dispensatore di servizi, di favori o di "stangate" … Gli imprenditori italiani non hanno mai considerato lo Stato come un'organizzazione sociale di cui essi fossero direttamente responsabili, sia pure assieme agli altri gruppi sociali che compongono la comunità».

Her husband had been the nails, the bolts, the rope that held her and her home together. She stood and imagined planks falling off of her arms, tearing free as those nails rusted and the rope frayed and parted deep inside her.

Baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverise the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make.

however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make;

man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him

enormous tragic joke in steel and concrete: half a wall.

What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish

As the wind scatters leaves upon the earth, such is the race of men

When a daughter loses a mother, she learns early that human relationships are temporary, that terminations are beyond her control, and her feelings of basic trust and security are shattered. The result? A sense of inner fragility and overriding vulnerability. She discovers she's not immune to unfortunate events, and the fear of subsequent similar losses may become a defining characteristic of her personality.

Each day the atmosphere became more hateful. It seemed fantastic to Bond that human relationships could collapse into dust overnight and he searched his mind again and again for a reason.

The present is the frailest of improbable constructs. It could have been different. Any part of it, or all of it, could be otherwise.

Jer,u tome sigurno i jest stvar:bit ?e bolji lije?nik jer je ?itao književnost.Kakva sve duboka objašnjenja njegova preina?ena senzibilnost može iš?itati iz ljudske patnje,iz samouništavaju?e gluposti ili puke zle sre?e koja je ljude natjerala u bolest!Ro?enje,smrt i krhkost izme?u njih.Uspon i pad-to je lije?nikov posao,a to je i književnost.

una persona es, entre todo lo demás, una cosa material, que se rompe fácilmente pero que no es fácil recomponer.

Ogni persona è, tra le altre cose, un oggetto facile da rompere e difficile da riparare.

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

She's not dead, Henry kept telling himself. But her life, all lives, seemed tenuous when he saw how quickly, with what ease, all the trappings, all the fine details of a lifetime could be packed and scattered, or junked.

Rayhana realized that she was powerful. However, she also realized that everything around her might turn to ashes in a fire the likes of which she had never seen before.

In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.

Her face looked like it would shatter any second.

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.