Quotes About Fragility

Our limited data force a sense of historical fragility: even as I nurture interpretation, I continually run the risk of creating it in my own image.122

I grow into my death. My life is small and getting smaller. The world is green. Nothing is all.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

Frailty, thy name is woman!

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you probably could never get it back together again.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

What's sad about falling in love is the thought of falling so hard and can't get up that easily once broken.

The Heart is built with walls stronger than diamond but the walls are easily broken by true Love.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

If we remembered everyday that we could lose someone at any moment, we would love them more fiercely and freely, and without fear- not because there is nothing to lose, but because everything can always be lost.

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

Never take for granted those you love, those you rely on, those you need the most because one day you may turn around and they will be gone...

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Only real men can handle truly delicate women.

Déjà, je ne suis plus qu'une fine pellicule recouvrant un amoncellement de souvenirs. Je n'en peux plus. Qu'adviendra-t-il de mois si cette peau venait à se rompre ?

a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system. Heart condition, diabetes, slow-killing diseases with slow-sounding names. This is the body going over to death with impatience, one part at a time.

One night. It took one night to lose everything. But maybe everything was nothing if it could be lost so fast.

Love was rather terrifying. Something so hard to find should not be so easily lost.