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Quotes About Fragility

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.
~ Zak Bagans
disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.
~ Charlotte Armstrong
Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.
~ Karen Scalf Linamen
I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.
~ Dylan Thomas
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...
~ Yasunari Kawabata
We must be tender with all budding things. Our Maker let no thought of Calvary Trouble the morning stars in their first song.
~ yeats william butler ii
She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
People were the most dangerous animals in the world, Teacher Gu thought of telling his daughter during that visit ten years ago; stay small and unimportant, like a grain of dust,
~ Yiyun Li
Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
~ young edward
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
~ young edward iv
The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.
~ young wm paul iv
She is like a broken pot that's not afraid of shattering, and I'm like a dead pig who no longer minds that the water's coming to a boil
~ Yu Hua
Di colpo privata di due persone, come ce l'avrebbe fatta ad andare avanti questa famiglia? Era come una pentola spezzata: mezza pentola non fa una pentola, mezza famiglia non fa una famiglia.
~ Yu Hua
Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.
~ Yugoslav Proverb
We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.
~ Yukio Mishima
A small night storm blows Saying 'falling is the essence of a flower' Preceding those who hesitate
~ Yukio Mishima
Any confrontation between weak, flabby flesh and death seemed to me absurdly inappropriate
~ Yukio Mishima
Life struck us as being a strangely volatile thing. It was exactly as though life were a salt lake from which most of the water had suddenly evaporated, leaving such a heavy concentration of salt that our bodies floated buoyantly upon its surface.
~ Yukio Mishima
To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous
~ Yukio Mishima
A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what's inside pours out. It's only natural.
~ Yukio Mishima
My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won't you?
~ Yukio Mishima
Los labios y los ojos de Sonoko resplandecían. Su belleza me deprimía y despertaba en mi una sensación de impotencia. Esa misma sensación es la causa de que Sonoko me pareciera aún más efímera.
~ Yukio Mishima
Putting my hands on. What April couldn't fix Wasn't worth the time: Egg shell & dried placenta Light as memory. Patches of fur, feathers, & bits of skin. A nest Of small deaths among anemone. A canopy edged over, shadowplaying The struggle underneath As if it never happened
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
Gerçek hayattaysa insanlar kara bir figür omuzlar?na dokundu?u, tanr? istedi?i ya da ölümlülük büyük kozmik plan?n bir parças? oldu?u için ölmezler, her zaman teknik bir aksakl?k yüzünden ölürler.
~ Yuval Noah Harari