Quotes About Fragility

And what a refreshing and happy horror that there was nobody there! Not even we, who walked there, were there… For we were nobody. We were nothing at all… We had no life for Death to have to kill. We were so tenuous and slight that the wind's passing left us prostrate, and time's passage caressed us like a breeze grazing the top of a palm.

We were so tenuous and slight that the wind's passing left us prostrate, and time's passage caressed us like a breeze grazing the top of a palm.

Es necesario cierto coraje intelectual para que un individuo reconozca valerosamente que no pasa de ser un harapo humano, aborto superviviente, loco todavía fuera de las fronteras de la internabilidad;

The beauty of ruins? That they're no longer good for anything.

Dermot Trellis'in akli melekeleri geldiÄŸinde aral?klarla teker teker geldiler, öyle hep birden deÄŸil. Hepsi kendi ?st?raplar?yla geldiler ve sanki her an kalk?p gideceklermiÅŸ gibi akl?n s?n?r?nda endiÅŸeyle durdular.

Bubbles are one of the few things in life that we are allowed to break.

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.

The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.

When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

If the widespread attempts to block Brexit gave us a glimpse into how fragile our commitment to democracy had become - reduced to a technocratic in-name-only veneer - reactions to Covid are a stark reminder that freedom cannot be assumed as a social norm that's deeply embedded into our institutions and our psyche.

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

The male ego is a terrifying, terrifying thing, you know? If it's shattered, it becomes even more dangerous.

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

Most kids here could kill you in two seconds flat, me included. Bruce is hilarious. He acts all macho, but he's a total baby sometimes. After he finished basic training and got his grey shirt he heard all the little red shirt kids were going on an Easter egg hunt. They wouldn't let him go so he burst into tears. He laid in his room and cried for like, three hours.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

One insight was that the ordinary physical world through which one shuffled heedless and half-assed toward nonentity was capable of composing itself, at any time and without notice, into a massive instrument of agonizing death.