Quotes About Fragility

Build it all up, and it all falls down. It all burns down. Everything you need can be taken. Remember that, nieces. Everything you hold dear, it can be taken.

Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently their whole defense from a universe of dangers is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.

we wouldn't ask why a rose with damaged petals

Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle

Her character, Mr. Wogan, is a tender and delicate plant. It will not grow under glass, but in a dark room, where I believe it flourishes most invisibly.

Quem ama a perfeição? Não, o amor quer cuidado e o cuidado necessita dos erros da pessoa amada, necessita de feridas, de fragilidade. O amor quer curar, e a perfeição não tem necessidade de cura. Não se pode amar a perfeição, simplesmente adorar.

My walls no longer protect me. They never protected me. Their solidity is mere illusion, their whiteness is stained

Virginity is like a balloon. One prick and it's all gone.

To the ones who feel like it could all come apart at any moment . . . and to the ones who comfort us and keep us together

If hearts could shatter, mine just did.

Reputation is like fine china once broken it's very hard to repair.

In America, my initial impression was that death or the possibility of it always seemed to come as a surprise, as if we took it for granted that we were immortal, and that death was just an option.

such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable. The

Write it down. Whatever it is, write it down. Chip in into marble. Type it into Microsoft Word. Spell it out in seaweeds on the shore. We are each of us an endangered species, delicate as unicorns.

But holding Michael had always been like holding a little person, who knew that his feeding would end, who knew that if you were picked up you would be put down, that the comfort came but also went.

He held his grip on her arm. "What if something goes wrong? Have you thought of that? What if today is all there is?" "Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Jun Do saw a look he knew well from childhood, the look of a boy who thought the next day would be better. Those boys never lasted. Still, Jun Do liked them the most.

Nonc is on his side, looking at a boy whose breathing is untroubled for all he's been through, though there's a lack of shine in his eyes, as if the little light in him might someday go out. His breath is clean and perfect, though, sweet-smelling.

The chronic shortage of oil, the debility of the European coal mines and the fragility of the food chain, made it seem unlikely that Germany would in fact be able to 'consolidate' its conquests of 1940 without falling into excessive dependence on the Soviet Union.

I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.

Mina estaba sentada, hermosa y pálida como la primera nieve que a veces, en otoño, besa las últimas flores y que pronto se fundirá en un agua amarga.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

On the whole earth there's no being, no substance, and probably no human institution that doesn't end by growing old. But it's in the logic of things that every human institution should be convinced of its everlastingness—unless it already carries the seed of its downfall. The hardest steel grows weary. Just as it is certain that one day the earth will disappear, so it is certain that the works of men will be overthrown.

It is sobering to think on how thin a thread of fate the history of the world sometimes depends!