Quotes About Fragility

Pre?o sa ?udia chvascú, že sú citlivejÅ¡í ako zvieratá? Tým sú len bezbrannejÅ¡í; keby sme nemali iných potrieb, iba hlad a smäd a telesné túžby, boli by sme takmer slobodní; takto nás rozochveje každu?ký závan vetra, každý poh?ad, náhodné slovo.

When you considered this world--people winched up and lowered down into the earth in steel cages and speed-fed through the tunnels, with doors cracking everywhere, and arctic winds mingling with dusty gaps of fire from the planet's core--it was hard to believe how delicate life was, how breakable things were.

Well, we cry and twist and are naked at both ends of life. We cry at both ends of life, while the doctor watches.

We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying.

I went downstairs and carried the dog upstair in my arms. It's laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence. I placed it upon a cushion on the rug.

My tears simply broke through the fragile wall that had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

Every light can be extinguished. The intellect is a light. Therefore it can, be extinguished.

A vida é como uma bola de sabão, que conservamos e sopramos tanto quanto for possível, porém com a firme certeza de que ela irá estourar.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle.

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.

Breathe gently here, for with fragility all is fraught, Here, in this workshop of the world, where wares of glass are wrought

Once you have fallen off the edge like all of us have, including our Biroo," Anjum said, "you will never stop falling. And as you fall you will hold on to other falling people. The sooner you understand that the better. This place where we live, where we have made our home, is the place of falling people. Here there is no haqeeqat. Arre, even we aren't real. We don't really exist.

A bee died in a coffin flower.

they knew that they had to put their faith in fragility. Stick to Smallness. Each time they parted, they extracted only one small promise from each other: Tomorrow?Tomorrow.

Her collarbones like wings spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin. — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things . (Random House April 22, 1997)

It was hot in the church, and the white edges of the arum lilies crisped and curled. A bee died in a coffin flower.

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain

The moth on Rahel's heart lifted a downy leg. Then put it back. Its little leg was cold. A little less her mother loved her.

For all but our most recent history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of the dice.

When, as the researchers put it, "life's fragility is primed," people's goals and motives in their everyday lives shift completely. It's perspective, not age, that matters most. Tolstoy

When, as the researchers put it, "life's fragility is primed," people's goals and motives in their everyday lives shift completely. It's perspective, not age, that matters most.

When life's fragility is primed peoples goals and motives in their every day lives shift completely. It's perspective not age that matters most.