Quotes About Fragility

Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.

Sadness brings delicacy. Happiness brings subliminal terror.

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

You can't take good health for granted.

What good is a fragile spirit, as when touched, shatters into a thousand pieces.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

Some say loyalty inspires boundless hope. And while that may be, there is a catch. True loyalty takes years to build... and only seconds to destroy.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.

I'm not a fighter, I'm a bleeder.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.