Quotes About Fragility

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to protect it.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

One of the most beautiful sights is when the rim of the Earth is bright on one side, and you see this defined line of the atmosphere. You see how close and thin it is. We've got to be careful. We've got to take care of this planet.

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Americans are no less susceptible to disease, joblessness, and family changes than their peers in rich nations, but they are made more fragile by these crises. The country has a thinner safety net, fewer public goods, and less social insurance than other countries.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.

Bess came out of her room. She had changed into a dress which had to be hooked up the back and I was elected to hook it up. Though she had a strokeable-looking back, my hands were careful not to wander. The easy ones were nearly always trouble: frigid or nympho. schizy or commercial or alcoholic, sometimes all five at once. Their nicely wrapped gifts of themselves often turned out to be homemade bombs, or fudge with arsenic in it.

The uncertainty of tomorrow can only be understood by those who don't know for sure if they will live another day.

She looked the way a rose petal looks when you crush it between finger and thumb.

Jed thought he understood. It was like when his radios were thrown away. You could shrug your shoulders, put on a face that said you didn't care, but you did and nothing could ever be secure again. The next time security appeared as a possibility, you smashed it yourself. And went on smashing it. That, he was sure, was how Creed felt.

The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn't even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.

Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die.

when all the wars are done, a butterfly will still be beautiful. Ruskin

Our skin, I thought, is like the leaf of a tree, young and green and shiny; then it gets darker and heavier, sometimes spotted with disease, sometimes eaten away; then fading, yellow and red, then falling, crumbling into dust or feeding the flames of fire.

April splinters like an ice palace.

I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

Bu ak?am anlad?m ki, bir insan di?er bir insana bazen hayata ba?land???ndan çok daha kuvvetli ba?larla sar?labilirmi?. Gene bu ak?am anlad?m ki, onu kaybettikten sonra, ben dünyada ancak kof bir ceviz tanesi gibi yuvarlan?p sürüklenebilirim.

Zannediyorsun ki, hepimiz birer makineyiz ve evvelden kuruldu?umuz gibi i?leriz. Bir yerde bir bozukluk oldu mu, derhal oray? sökup atmak laz?m!.. En kuvvetli insan?n bile bazan ne kadar zay?f anlar?, istedi?inin tam aksini yapmaya mecbur oldu?u dakikalar? bulundu?unu nas?l inkar edebiliriz?

Sak?n tepenize bir s?rça kö?k kurmay?n?z. Ama günün birinde nas?lsa böyle bir s?rça kö?k kurulursa, onun y?k?lmaz, devrilmez bir ?ey oldu?unu sanmay?n. En heybetlisini tuz buz etmek için üç be? kelle f?rlatmak yeter.

Unfortunately, these days even so-called spiritual leaders are talking about self-esteem. "Self" and "esteem" are both a problem. Both are very limited entities; both are fragile; both will always be insecure. If you have no esteem, very good. If you have no self, fabulous!