Quotes About Fragility

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it.

A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it. (Callie's Mother)

We have all been reminded of our innate human fragility, our frailties and our flaws. This realization combined with the stress engendered by the lockdowns and the concurrent deep sense of uncertainty about what is coming next could, albeit surreptitiously, change us and the way we relate to other people and to our world. For some, what starts as a change may end up as an individual reset.

In the old days a poet once said" In the old days a poet once said our nation is destroyed yet the mountains and rivers survive Today's poet says the mountains and rivers are destroyed yet our nation survives Tomorrow's poet will say the mountains and rivers are destroyed our nation is destroyed and Alas! you and I are completely destroyed

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

When he watched her sleeping, he often thought, My heart lies vulnerable outside my chest.

Don't be nice to me," she whispered, though she didn't move away. "I might cry if you are.

Life was fragile, and the shadows left behind touched those who came after. Hooves

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

I believe that our species will not last long. It does not seem to be made of the stuff that has allowed the turtle, for example, to continue to exist more or less unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, for hundreds of times longer, that is, than we have even been in existence. We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct. What's more, we do damage. The brutal climate and environmental changes that we have triggered are unlikely to spare us.

They are prompted by the experience of life itself. Fragile, brief, full of illusions.

Porcelain The shards of life, glued together, form a strange teacup. Unused, it quietly observes us from the sideboard.

Viajamos con las nuebes que se disgregan y oscurecen, cambiamos con ellas sin darnos cuenta, a tenor de su frágil dibujo condenado a la agonía antes de que nadie lo haya entendido...

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

your head is flowers, your body the body of a deer, pierced

The dandelion is a gawky yellow flower that blooms and then collapses into a soft, clumsy down that little children blow wishes on.

there is a use-by date for everything, a statute of limitations on grief. I wish the custom of wearing a black armband could be reinstated to signal fragility and a need for gentle treatment. We are all in too much of a hurry now to move on, to demonstrate a resilience we may not feel. I long for the unspoken subtleties of the Victorian mourning code with its spectrum of colours from ebony to crimson, indicating various stages of recovery.

Everything new and beautiful seems to arrive already haunted by its own demise.

Until tonight , she thought death was for grandparents and goldfish.

I felt small and exposed in his presence, as though my body was transparent and fragile as air, as though I might evaporate at any moment, or blow away.

Daisies. They outlast roses, and they're tough little flowers.

I can't stop thinking about dying the way humans do it. Imagine! If at any moment, you could just stop existing. How different everything would be.." They don't stop existing Lenia said...They have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fight so hard to stay alive. I think it's so beautiful. Imagine: being that fragile, that permanent.