Quotes About Fragility

The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him.

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

She was angry at Ezra Pound because he had sat down too quickly on a small, fragile and, doubtless, uncomfortable chair, that it is quite possible he had been given on purpose, and had either cracked or broken it. That he was a great poet and a gentle and generous man and could have accommodated himself in a normal-size chair was not considered.

world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

But in weakness a man can be a great danger.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

Behind the promotion of Western ideas of mental health and healing lies a variety of cultural assumptions about human nature itself. Westerners share, for instance, beliefs about what type of life event is likely to make one psychologically traumatized, and we agree that venting emotions by talking is more healthy than stoic silence. We are certain that humans are innately fragile and should consider many emotional experiences as illnesses that require professional intervention.

by the essence of their nature, which was frail, all human beings were probably doomed to be seasick.

in questo seguitare una muraglia che ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia

Charity belongs to nobody. Its image, a soap bubble, shines for an instant, bursts, and never knows who blew it.

Before you lose things, you don't really know you can lose them,

You are a human being. And that's and unstable condition that ends badly for all of us.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

La verdad es una esquirla de hielo

Tu ne signifie rien. Tu n'es qu'une minuscule mite qu'on peut réduire en poussière entre ses doigts mais qui, si on la laisse faire, peut faire un trou dans un tissu précieux. Un grain de poivre insignifiant, mais qui, si on le croque par inadvertance, gâchera le mets le plus raffiné dont on aurait voulu se délecter. Voilà ce que tu es. Rien. Rien du tout.

Ciemno?? i czas - lekkie, niewidzialne substancje, które obna?aj? ludzk? krucho??. Umys? jest tylko p?omykiem zapa?ki na wietrze. Dusza ze strachu przed mrokiem wtula si? w cia?o, a ono swoje istnienie stwierdza dotykaj?c w?asnej skóry.

Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under its own weight.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

La memoria es frágil y eso es una bendición, el tiempo va perdiendo todo en sus espejos.

Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping paper. Melanie put her arms around the poor, thin body. What is Aunt Margaret made of? Birdbones and tissue paper. spun glass and straw.

What is Aunt Margaret made of? Bird bones and tissue paper, spun glass and straw.

you see everything as though your eyes are going to lapse into tears.

I'd like to know what you want out of life." "I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.