Quotes About Fragility

We pass between sea and sky with unaccountable, humiliating ease, as if there were no firmament between the firmaments, no above or below, here or there, now or then, with only the feeble conventions of language, our contrived principles, and our love of one another's light to keep our own light from going out; abandon any one of them, and we dissolve in darkness like salt in water.

When a breeze blew, petals rained down on my upturned face, and I stopped and gasped, stunned by the beauty and sadness.

Catching it destroys it, and I felt like I was disappearing, too. Stuff like this can drive you crazy.

Just before words vanish they acquire a sickening pulpy smell, like clumps of dead grass whipped by the wind into dry little spheres, and they spill from the brain and the vocal cords, down through the blood vessels and nerves to the deepest, farthest corners of your body.

human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions

Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best

To be thin-skinned, far-sighted, and loose-tongued," he said, "is to feel too sharply, see too clearly, speak too freely. It is to be vulnerable to the world when the world believes itself invulnerable

Construction work was the art of making the city become aware of itself as a fragile organism at the mercy of forces against which there was no appeal.

Anyone in the vicinity of a dying man was utterly at his mercy. Punches delivered from a deathbed left bruises that never faded.

But the camera sees what he does not say. A camera is a thing easily broken or purloined; its fragility makes it fastidious. A camera requires law, order, the thin blue line. Seeking to preserve itself, it remains behind the shielding wall, observing the shadow-lands from afar, and of course from above: that is, it chooses sides.

Your fragility is also your strength.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.