Quotes About Fragility

Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.

And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.

Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.

Death is woven in with the violets, " said Louis. "Death and again death.")

A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls

The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

Any day could be your last day of existence?

Anything man can make, man can destroy.

Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death

Everyone dies young.

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

We are bound to expireEven metal which is sturdiest, Rusts.Even oxygen, the breath of life, Soon transpires.8/6/11 -Luis Medina

She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.

Malady of mortality

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.