Quotes About Fragility

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away.

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it's over. There is no safe. There is no control.

Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

He smiled as Will handled the flask gingerly. 'there's a glass bottle inside,but it's padded with straw and protected by the leather covering. It's quite safe. Just be careful how you handle it.

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that's the lot. There's no mercy in things. There's not even a Great Beyond. There's nothing.

and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...

the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...

everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...

I keep breaking things - appointments and porcelain, thinking of your lips...