Quotes About Fragility

Kennan brooded about Europe's fragility and his own superficiality. "Americanism, like Bolshevism, is a disease which gains footing only in a weakened body," he concluded with youthful certainty.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

Sometimes I feel like the last cookie in the cookie jar; broken and alone.

You can't keep hiding behind your masks of glass. Because eventually, you're just going to either shatter or completely crack.

It is a mistake. I just want to protect it from being broken.

I may look tough, but inside I'm easily broken. My words may seem strong, but inside I've never spoken.

Love is like falling down... in the end you're left hurt, scared, and with a memory of it forever.

Being in love is one of the greatest wonders of the universe, but at the same time it is fragile.

You feel safe when in love, yet vulnerable too, knowing that person has your heart in the palm of their hand, and depending on how they handled it they could crush you or nurture you

I know it seems like I'm this strong person who can get though anything, but inside I'm fragile. I've had so many things thrown at me, and each one has only made a crack. What I'm afraid of is shattering.

Strong walls can crack, just like the hardest heart can break, Cracks are just reminders that you can fall apart no matter how strong you are.

They say the heart is the strongest muscle in the human body. Then can anyone tell me why it breaks so easily?

I'm not made out of glass. Glass breaks easily no matter how careful you are. I'm made out of a finest bamboo. You can bend me, but you can never break me.

We all break down once in awhile after being strong for too long.

So what made you think you could just take a life and push it around? I guess to build yourself up so high, you had to take her, and break her down.

We are like dominoes. I fall for you & you fall for another.

My love for you is like a mirror; You can break it into a million pieces but when you look close...You're still in it.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Life is precious, life is hard... But if you let go everything will fall apart.