Top 100 Fragile Quotes
#1. First I anger Edmure, and now Robb, but all I have done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it?
George R R Martin
#2. Love is a fragile thing, easily destroyed by dishonesty.
Ellen Hopkins
#4. They weren't scared, or dispossessed, or fragile. They were possible.
Justin Torres
#5. Maybe some things are fragile, but your heart is not one of them. It is invincible.
Autumn Doughton
#7. Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first.
Vicki Pettersson
#8. It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.
Kim Hyesoon
#9. Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
Barbara Mertz
#10. The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.
Jill Stein
#11. Oh, we're all sluts. I'm liberated enough to cut me some notches on my bedpost, if you catch my drift? No, those girls are shallow. It's why they have to work in a flock. They can't go solo because their fragile egos can't handle the stress. I have no patience for weak girls
Bijou Hunter
#12. The horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)
Keith Ablow
#13. We live through the belief of children ... Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
Bill Willingham
#14. The human heart is exquisitely fragile. Our judgments need to be gentle, our understanding deep, and our forgiveness wide.
Ron Rolheiser
#15. He could never imagine himself with anyone other than Maureen; they had shared so much. To live without her would be like scooping out the vital parts of himself, and he would be no more than a fragile envelope of skin.
Anonymous
#16. Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.
Annalee Newitz
#17. That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.
Marc Maron
#19. I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.
Emily Blunt
#20. Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart's content. In all, these past few weeks had been some of the most peaceable of her life. She had the sense of existing inside a fragile pause, a moment of grace.
Helene Wecker
#22. Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#23. Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?
Stacey Jay
#24. Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.
Allan Kaprow
#25. A loosening in my chest, the faintest stirrings of hope. But hope was a dangerous, fragile thing, easily shattered. I couldn't afford it.
Erica O'Rourke
#26. I believe in hope, in what is something called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that's why I write fiction, probaby. It's my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
John Green
#27. You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.
Zak Bagans
#28. What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.
Clarice Lispector
#29. The truth is a fragile thing, but a lie, well told, can live forever. " - Mark Twain
Rebecca Nugent
#30. You loved me cause I'm fragile. But I thought that I was strong. Well, you touch me for a little while, and all my fragile strength is gone!
Sara Bareilles
#31. Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection from unexpected circumstances and unseen dangers. Just the thought of good angels hovering around us gives people a feeling of safety!
Gary Kinnaman
#32. There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?
Felicia Hemans
#33. We often take these social rituals for granted, but we do so at our own peril. They are more fragile than we think. Like fine crystal, they break easily and are hard to glue back together.
Carmela Soprano
#34. The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.
William J. Brennan
#35. It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
Colin Meloy
#36. Seeming utterly fragile and vulnerable, the silhouette pulsed almost imperceptibly with the beating of her heart or the motions of her inner heart, as if she were whispering soundless words to the darkness.
Haruki Murakami
#37. And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile kindness in their love that survived through this poisonous war. Even though one of them hadn't.
Jennifer Ryan
#38. Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?
John Barth
#39. Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts
Widad Akreyi
#40. I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
Steven Pinker
#41. The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.
Sharon Gannon
#43. Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.
Tom Vanderbilt
#44. I'm like a grenade made of ceramic -solid and dense and cold- but still fragile.
Jasmine Warga
#45. I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been able to reproduce. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions give them?
Anais Nin
#46. We may shine, we may shatter,
We may be picking up the pieces here on after,
We are fragile, we are human,
And we are shaped by the light we let through us,
We break fast, cause we are glass.
We are glass.
Thompson Square
#47. Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#48. My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.
C. G. Jung
#49. Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#50. Trust was such a fragile thing, and once it was lost, it could never be fully restored. Could you ever truly trust anyone?
Kelly Moran
#51. The way she felt almost delicate when she was pressed up against him like this. Almost fragile. Almost safe. Almost like a princess.
Marissa Meyer
#52. I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
Zoe Saldana
#53. Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
Sam Shepard
#54. There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.
Maria McCann
#55. 'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.
Ellie Goulding
#56. Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.
Robin Morgan
#57. I've never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn't a word that fits June ... but here, now that she's sick, I realize just how fragile she can be.
Marie Lu
#58. Love hurts. Love is fragile. Love comes like a breath of magic, then departs leaving us feeling empty, alone, a paper cup blowing on the wind.
Chloe Thurlow
#59. It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.
Jeff VanderMeer
#60. We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong
#61. Apparently something nasty happened to him in the woodshed when he was a child and subsequently he's always been emotionally fragile.' Cat stood up and slammed her fist on the table.
Lesley Truffle
#62. Life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short, and fragile shot glass. We shouldn't waste a single drop.
Samantha Sotto
#63. It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
Suzanne Collins
#64. Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.
Ellie Goulding
#65. Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
Felix Frankfurter
#66. I am a Shotet. I am sharp as broken glass, and just as fragile. I tell lies better than I tell truths. I see all of the galaxy and never catch a glimpse of it.
Veronica Roth
#67. What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.
Cassandra Clare
#68. To find them all in one package ... well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.
Josh Lanyon
#69. The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
#71. How easily life can end on a misunderstanding. How fragile we all are, like spider silk on a branch of thorns. I
Stacey Lee
#72. The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.
Chuck Schuldiner
#73. Love transforms our fragile, cowardly hearts into hearts of stone, hearts of blade, hearts of hardest iron. Because love makes heroes of us all.
Kelly Barnhill
#74. And he realized ... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.
Nalini Singh
#75. Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.
Chris Martin
#76. The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
Judith Guest
#77. Of course, I've known people who have mental difficulties, so I know how fragile people's psyches are and how little it can take to overbalance somebody.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
#78. On balance, I would say that anybody who reminds our lords and masters that the computerized society is fragile ... has definitely done a service to the public at large.
John Brunner
#79. For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.
Brian Cox
#80. The Mularkeys all saw love as a durable, reliable thing, easy to recognize ... Love could be more fragile than a sparrow's bone.
Kristin Hannah
#81. It has been my experience that the "hardest" people in the world are actually the most fragile and the most soft-spoken are the strongest ...
Charles M. Blow
#82. Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.
Alberto Fujimori
#83. There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
Neil Gaiman
#84. The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.
John Ortberg
#85. Daisy," he whispered, turning until she was tucked beneath him once more. "I didn't mean for this to happen." His fingers investigated the fragile angles of her face, the smiling curve of her lips. "But now it seems impossible that I held out as long as I did.
Lisa Kleypas
#86. His small fragile ship had barely escaped a disaster; now it enters a region of new storms and uncharted depths through which even the best led ... cannot find a guide. He must find his own way and be his own saviour.
Hermann Hesse
#87. Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn't see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.
Donna Freitas
#88. An artist's work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.
Teresita Fernandez
#89. Word magic. If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. How can something as fragile as a word build itself a whole world?
Franny Billingsley
#91. Edgar Allan Poe's writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.
Nicholas Trandahl
#92. It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.
Mark Kurlansky
#93. She's fragile because you let her be fragile.
Jessica Park
#94. faith that's primarily intellectual - that is, a matter of mastering information - is deceptively fragile.
Rod Dreher
#95. Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice Mackenzie Swaim
#96. My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.
Madeleine L'Engle
#97. Culture and the freedoms of people are fragile. Without a sufficient base, when such pressures come only time is needed - and often not a great deal of time - before there is a collapse.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#98. Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real.
Shannon Kopp
#99. I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.
Danny Pudi
#100. What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
Anais Nin
