Quotes About Fragility

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart.

...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...

Only a small crack ... but cracks make caves collapse.

I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard.....

Ik waande ons onschendbaar en als iets niet stuk kan, doe je er automatisch een stuk minder voorzichtig mee. Heel normaal, dat is menselijk. Nee, het is niet normaal, maar zo zijn mensen. Het onkwetsbare moet gekwetst worden.

Shake out the ruffle, turn and go,Over the trellis blow the kiss.Some of the guests will never knowAnother night to shadow this.Some of the birds awake in vinesWill never see another faceSo frail, so lovely anyplaceBetween the birdbath and the bines.

The quickness with which all positive emotions such as love and trust can be expunged from the heart of a child is astounding. p 131

True enough," said Mrs. Copperfield, bringing her fist down on the table and looking very mean. "I have gone to pieces, which is a thing I've wanted to do for years. I know I am as guilty as I can be, but I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.

But do you know," said Andy, "how beautiful and delicate a man's heart is when he is happy for the first time? It is like the thin ice that has imprisoned those beautiful young plants that are released when the ice thaws.

tear-filled eyes. I could handle her tears of pain, and her tears of anger. But these… these tears are from something that breaks me a little.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Every pocket I put you in had its hole.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

She pictured the diaphanous wings of flies glittering like cut coal in the air above her friend's body.

The trouble with bubbles is, they burst.

The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them in one of these tiny coffins. Beans, you know, are beautifully shaped, like a new church, like modern architecture, like a planned city

We are no more than candles burning in the wind.

If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.

valójában bárki megsemmisíthet bennünket, ahogyan meg is hódíthat bárki, és ebben rejlik törékenységünk lényege.

cualquiera muere en cualquier instante.

Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera y de una evolución, la de su protagonista. También de la fragilidad y la tenacidad de una relación amorosa condenada al secreto y a la ocultación, al fingimiento y a la conjetura, y en última instancia al resentimiento mezclado con la lealtad.