Quotes About Fragility

Perhaps that's its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances…" He paused. "…are often deceiving.

Delilah had been transferred from her father's household to her husband's like crated porcelain.

she echoed with longing, like struck crystal.

The fabric looked delicate enough to shred with a good sneeze.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

Folk are easy hurt, no doubt about that. Easy wounded. Easy broken.

my hopes changed into a heap of shapeless rags, like seaweed pulled out of the water.

Culture was felt to be a fragile achievement, which could always fall prey to the forces of disorder and disintegration.

Instead I watched our mother obsessively for signs of breakage.

How quickly life could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

He was a baby once, she thought. New and perfect, cradled in his mother's arms. The mysterious Sylvie. Now he was a feathery husk, ready to blow away. His eyes were half open, milky, like an old dog, and his mouth had grown beaky with the extremity of age, opening and closing, a fish out of water. Bertie could feel a continual tremor running through him, an electrical current, the faint buzz of life. Or death, perhaps. Energy was gathering around him, the air was static with it.

That was how you lost people, a little carelessness and they just slipped through your fingers.

How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs, she said to Ursula.

Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood

One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.