Quotes About Fragility

Qué frío hace, pensó Eleanor infantilmente; nunca seré capaz de volver a dormir con todo este ruido surgiendo de mi cabeza; ¿cómo pueden los demás oír el ruido, si está saliendo de mi cabeza? Estoy desapareciendo centímetro a centímetro en esta casa, me estoy desmoronando cada vez un poco más porque todo este ruido me está desgajando; ¿por qué están asustados los demás?

Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and dying, turned toward her with attention, as though, dull and imperceptive as she was, it was still necessary for them to be gentle to a creation so unfortunate as not to be rooted in the ground, forced to go from one place to another, heart-breakingly mobile. Idly

Flowers under glass," Luke said. "Tassels. I am beginning to fancy this house.

I think that an atmosphere like this one can find out the flaws and faults and weaknesses in all of us and break us apart in a matter of days.

A receipt is as strong as a thatched roof.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Civilization was a thin, dangerously fragile veneer, and when that veneer cracked, man became one with the beasts again, falling back into the slime of the primeval abyss he prided himself on having climbed up from.

Whoever possesses something that is at once valuable and fragile is afraid of other people's envy, in so far as he projects on to them the envy he would have felt in their place.

We are never so vulnerable as when we love.

They don't commit suicide. They don't weep. But they can and do fall to pieces. They can and do have their hearts broken. They can and do lose their minds.

PÃ…â"¢átelství už jsou taková - kÃ…â"¢ehké konstrukce, které vydrží nápor bouÃ…â"¢e, a pÃ…â"¢esto se mohou rozpadnout na tisíc kousk? bez konkrétního d?vodu. KÃ…â"¢ehké jako bÃ…â"¢idlice.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

If I had rediscovered in Heaven, amplified to infinity, the monstrous alliance of fragility and implacability, of caprice and artificial necessity which had oppressed me since my birth, rather than worship Him I would have chosen damnation.

Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace . (Routledge; 1 edition, November 14, 2002) Originally published 1947.

when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

Do you ever feel that we are only building sand castles? Why do so many things happen to us? I am afraid the little we have left will be swept away, too. Why bother?

But you're also fragile. Imagine a mended china plate which hasn't quite set.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness, Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

Vossa existência, frágeis mortais, é aos meus olhos menos que nada. Felicidade só conheceis imaginada; vossa ilusão logo é seguida pela desdita.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.