Quotes About Fragility

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters.

habit of trusting breaks you badly

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.

Au lieu d'être immobile comme il convient à un pied embaumé depuis quatre mille ans, il s'agitait, se contractait et sautillait sur les papiers comme une grenouille effarée.

Like an earthen pot, a bad man is easily broken, and cannot readily be restored to his former situation; but a virtuous man, like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty, and easily repaired.

Ich nannte das Glashaus

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

It is singular how long the rotten will hold together, provided you do not handle it roughly.

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God....

And while I tossed and turned, it dawned on me that love was the most powerful emotion of all, because it made you vulnerable to the possibility of losing everything that really mattered.

You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes, for your own good.

Nada é tão débil e instável quanto a fama da potência não assente na própria força

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you

By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly. My heart is weak and unreliable.

Sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty.