Quotes About Fragility

I saw the earth far below as it really was, a little mud-heap in a great vastness, its kingdoms only cobwebs, its armies only crumbs.

Doesn't everything," he says, "die at last and too soon?

Every cell in a dying body winks out at its own pace.

But he was afraid to speak. He could see that speaking would be like dashing some very fragile bond to pieces, like kicking a dandelion gone to seed; the wispy, tenuous sphere of its body would scatter in the wind. So instead they stood together, the snow fluttering down from the clouds to melt into the water where their own reflected images trembled like two people trapped against the glass of a parallel world, and he reached, finally, to take her hand.

They die so easily, he boasts. It is like sprinkling salt onto the backs of slugs.

Doesn't look like much, does he?" murmurs Fredrick. "Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.

books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.

You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

You're never too young to die.

You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks. And that day it was all smashed.

You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks.

that moment, Fraser was utterly aware of the smallness of the room, the hopelessness of a life broken.

It's amazing how quickly it can all fall apart.

You're never too young to die.

If the Internet, ubiquitous as it now is, proves too dangerous in the hands of the psychologically fragile, perhaps access to it ought to be restricted. We ban drunks from driving because they're a danger to others. Isn't it time we did the same to trolls?

Fighting causes you to face life head on, because you could end up seriously getting hurt, and you could hurt somebody else. It causes both people to face the reality that we are fragile beings, but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves in the process and punch each other in the face and have a good time.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

People are fragile. Our brains are fragile and you can only abuse them for so long.

I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

You can't ever go back; life is incredibly short and fragile.