Quotes About Fragility

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

The world is falling apart and nobody is there for you, 2020 has shown it over and over again. But American capitalism is.

I was very nervous about everything. I was the girl who would burst into tears at the drop of a hat.

When you're young and a teenager, there's an air of excitement about living with a time when you have to grasp life as much as you can because it may be taken from you.

If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

The Answer" Will we speak to each other making the grass bend as if a wind were before us, will our way be as graceful, as substantial as the movement of something moving so gently. We break things into pieces like walls we break ourselves into hearing them fall just to hear it.

First there's the children's house of make believe,Some shattered dishes underneath a pine,The playthings in the playhouse of the children.Weep for what little things could make them glad.

Except that once you had broken up, it was much easier to do so again. He ought to know. How many times had he and Charlotte split? How many times had their relationship fallen to pieces, and how many times had they tried to reassemble the wreckage? There had been more cracks than substance by the end: they had lived in a spider's web of fault lines, held together by hope, pain and delusion.

He handed her her pills and the cup; her hands trembled; he had to support the saucer and he thought, inappropriately, of a priest offering communion.

If you're going to treat me like some piece of special-occasion china that gets taken out when you don't think I'll get hurt, we're—we're doomed.

She raised a hand to her face purely for the purpose of hiding it. She felt suddenly and perilously close to tears.

The mighty are brought low by many a thing Too small to name… Helen Murphy Hunt Danger

The only thing left to her keeping were a bloody old rag and a creased photograph of the ocean which she held pressed to the hollow of her slender throat and had thrashed for and bit hands to protect like a madwoman risen from sleep to in her unformed state between wake and dream reproach the world tenfold.

Oh my Petite,clearest of all God's creatures, still all air and nerve.

Things last, but sometimes for days here only children seem fit to handle children, and there is no utility or inspiration in the wind smashing without direction. The fresh paint on the captains' houses hides softer wood.