Quotes About Fragility

El corazón no se rompe como un huevo. Y si fuera un huevo, ¿no es mejor romperlo para que se demarren los sentimientos? Es el precio por una vida bien vivida.

sólo quedaban sobre la cama dos criaturas desvalidas, con la memoria ausente, flotando en el vacío terrible de tantas palabras calladas.

I didn't know what to do in my happy state. I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

Our lives are never certain, even for an hour.

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

Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.

Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they're pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity's baseline social contract.

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

I think this is the way love feels to people like you and me. Threatening and dangerous. We have to be in control, and love takes that away. People like us… We can't tolerate vulnerability. But despite our best efforts, sooner or later love seems to catch up with us. And then…And then we fall apart.

There was a sweetness about her that was as unexpected as it was disturbing because it made her so much more vulnerable than he wanted her to be.