Quotes About Fragility

You have a beautiful face, mister. I'd hate to think of it pecked away.

To express ingratitude was to risk taunting fate; we were all afraid of that, aware of the delicacy of our disregard.

The youth himself seemed to be made of shell; delicate and translucent.

I realise, as I stand swaying on the splintered slabs, that I have lost the thread of real life. It is stretching to an infinite thinness. And I am losing the equally fragile thread of sanity; it will not be long.

We tend to take summer's vitality for granted, when in actuality it is just one prolonged drought, or disease, away from decimation.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

It was three o'clock in the morning. A time when frail people die.

Yes, monsters all of us, I thought. And so horribly fragile.

The devices meant to float at sea and capture the waves' power have been destroyed in short order by . . . the waves. "they've all been smashed up in storms," Challenor said, shaking his head.

Girls are soft and pretty.

I'm really scared of everything. I'm very, very emotional. I'm extremely soft!

I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile.

Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict.

The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts.

I think I present a different side of a male character: a side that is not John Wayne-like, a side that is, in fact, destructible. To some people, that is refreshing, and to other people, especially if they don't know me, it may be disturbing.

It is not good to play with a delicate heart, my dear. Pain you will know. When someone will play with your heart.

My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.

Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?

once, a boy told a girl : i will stay with you forever, little did she know that his forever is only three months because..he died of cancer!

Relationship are like glasses, once it's broken it never be like before, as broken glass remain with the broken piece stains ever...

I thought that you could hear all my unspoken words.....for I misunderstood the language of my own love was so intense and your ears were so brittle!

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?

I'm sorry I broke you. It's just that you're so pretty, and I break pretty things.