Quotes About Fragility

and all the strange rats we saw looked, to us, surprisingly weak and puny. So we were set apart from even our own kind.

The Laws of Human Nature, 10: Beware the Fragile Ego—The Law of Envy

All civilisations consider themselves invulnerable; history warns us that none is.

And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered

Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.

Qué endeble es la concepción del mundo con que la gente se contenta...

How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

even what seems stable and true skids upon a razor balanced upon another razor perched upon the thinnest, keenest slice of luck.

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.

you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young.

How needy man is.

all vessels leaked to some degree.

Men were odd. One day they were hard, far too hard; the next day they were soft, far too soft. They were like porcupines: prickly on the outside, but with soft bellies.

The earth is mostly just a boneyard.

The earth is mostly just a boneyard...but pretty in the sunlight.

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.

Tough, yet brittle. That's the thing about being really hard. When you do break, you shatter.

Some children grow stronger in the broken places, like bones; others grow sadder. I did both.

because love can die from being withheld, like a flower that is so beautiful you hide it away from the sun trying to make it last longer; but every flower needs sun, and being in love requires risking yourself. It can require risking everything you are, not just in battle, but emotionally. Sometimes you have to risk it all to gain it all.

A very ex-boyfriend once described me as a little china doll. He meant it as a compliment. I didn't take it that way. There are reasons I don't date much.

Ms. Harrison paled so that the makeup floated on her suddenly pale skin like impressionist water lilies.

love can die from being withheld, like a flower that is so beautiful you hide it away from the sun trying to make it last longer; but every flower needs sun, and being in love requires risking yourself.