Quotes About Fragility

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

We're all broken in one way or another, some just hold the pieces together better.

Nothing is interminable - All is but transient, for even set stone can be broken.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Never take your loved ones for granted, because you never know when their hearts will stop beating, and you won't have chance to say goodbye.

Nobody realizes how delicate a life can be until it's taken.

Appreciate what you have because at any moment you can lose it all.

The truth is: in a blink of an eye you could lose everything. Be grateful, and be thankful for what you have now.

Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn't promised.

washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care...

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfalteringly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

And of course, there is always the F for failure. F for failing falling festering failure. F for fault. F for forgotten.

The same wind that blows down your house shakes berries from the bushes.

Every step stranger. The bones of buildings had torn through their stone skin and lay exposed. Collapsed walls buried the cobblestones. Shattered glass dusted the scene with razor-edged glitter. The dust clouds were lit brighter by a dozen fires burning out of sight.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

De ahí nacen las grietas, como un cristal que se resquebraja y sigue en pie. No se envejece día tras día, se envejece de golpe, de un modo amargo. Una descarga que nos fulmina, nos ensucia... Nos tiñe el rostro de amargura.

I feel like... the boy lost somewhere between the torment of memory and a few fragile shards of hope.

She had been swimming in a big pink aquarium, and she never thought that somebody would come along with a hammer and break it until she was gasping for her life and everything she had taken for granted, for permanent, was gone.

How many times can you be shattered in the toasting, a champagne flute lifted and listing? How many times will you survive, a woman made of her own history, and more than it? How many times can you put your heart back together? As many times as you need to. You can make it through this.

No one understood the simple truth: Klas had realized that what is most beautiful must be also most fragile. Now this is scary and hard to bear when you are little and don't know anything about the nature of glass. For it is very upsetting that the most beautiful things in life shatter so easily.