Quotes About Fragility

You must be careful. Your voice, the tones it makes, it sounds so strong, as if it could never go away. But it might, all at once, without warning. Certainly

It's the shadow on every kiss and every dollar, that it might not be there tomorrow.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,   When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last;   Or when rich China vessels fall'n from high,   In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie! 160

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

You know I'm weak on good looks.

Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.

Human beings are weak.

Even just a little bit of praise can weaken you.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.

We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.

We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots rather than merely addressing the symptoms.

Her lids tremble and her eyeballs look like they might disappear into her head.

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

C est quand notre milieu (naturel ou culturel) commence a nous faire du mal qu on s avise de son existence, et plus il nous decouvrira ses fragilites, plus nous y aurons mal. Ainsi decouvre-t-on sa langue quand, a l etranger, on ne peut plus la parler - ou qu on avait une patrie, quand on est exile.