Top 92 Quotes About Fragile Things
#1. Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.
Phil Cooke
#3. I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?
Lauren DeStefano
#4. God's a connoisseur of fragile things, and decorates His cloudy outlook with ornaments of finest glass.
Stephen King
#5. People were such fragile things: they only existed from a certain angle, at a certain scale and spacing.
Alexandra Kleeman
#6. It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
May Sarton
#7. We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)
Olivier A. Blanchard
#8. The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous.
George R R Martin
#9. 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
#10. There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
Neil Gaiman
#11. I think ... that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
Neil Gaiman
#12. Humans, in her experience, were weak and fragile things prone to dying and breeding with about the same frequency.
Patricia Briggs
#13. There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.
Gwen Cooper
#14. Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells ... Easy to crush.
Melissa Marr
#15. It is a fragile thing that can only live where fragile things are loved.
James Hilton
#16. And there it is, proof if proof were needed, that though God may mould the clay and fashion some of us hale, some strong, some beautiful, inside we make ourselves, from foolish things, breakable, fragile things:
Mark Lawrence
#17. Wait," said Winter as Scarlet nudged the podship forward. Scarlet's heart dropped. "What?" she said, scanning the port for a thaumaturge, a guard, a threat. Winter reached over and pulled the pilot's harness over Scarlet's head. "Safety first, Scarlet-friend. We are fragile things.
Marissa Meyer
#18. Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.
Lauren Oliver
#19. There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.
Allison Winn Scotch
#20. Memories are fragile things to hold, but many times, it's what we have.
Ann Howard Creel
#21. Fragile things become undone at a frightening speed.
Deb Caletti
#22. Would see. Hope, faith, change: these were fragile things, and they had to be tended.
V.E Schwab
#23. People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#24. Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.
Nate Parker
#25. Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne
#26. Father said all good things in life were fragile and easily lost - he
Khaled Hosseini
#27. Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.
Andrew McMahon
#28. But in the darkness of her room he was reminded that helplessness was often a portal to God, because rarely did the fragile, self-serving human pray for things in his complete control.
Rene Gutteridge
#29. Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings.
Paul Harding
#30. You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.
Larry Ellison
#31. We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.
Barack Obama
#32. I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.
Anthony Warlow
#33. I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
Ellen Hopkins
#34. I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
Zoe Saldana
#35. You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.
Michael Shannon
#36. I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.
Patty Hearst
#38. Artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
Alan Alda
#39. We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!
Jon Stewart
#40. These fragile, worn, faded, thin, cheap paper-bound books. They smelled of dust, and mould, and age. They smelled, faintly, of pee, and tobacco, and spilled coffee. They smelled like things which had lived.
They smelled like history.
Lavie Tidhar
#41. Maybe some things are fragile, but your heart is not one of them. It is invincible.
Autumn Doughton
#42. I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
James Broughton
#43. That night the first frost of autumn struck Tucker's Grove. It crept up from the ground, snaring the fragile roots of plants. It emerged from the air, etching its signature on window-panes. A portent. The year was nearing its end. Things would die soon.
Kevin J. Anderson
#44. The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.
Sabaa Tahir
#45. The things that frighten us most are those that remind us of our fragile existence
Sumiko Saulson
#46. In the last year I have come to understand the traitorous nature of skin. We cannot live without this barrier between our beating hearts and the outside world, yet it is the most fragile of things, as well as the most deceptive.
Sarah Fine
#47. I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.
Glenn Close
#48. And those rights are not to be lightly infringed upon by government in any way. They're explicitly protected by the Constitution from the government. We are, after all, fragile living things that can be suppressed and abused by the powerful.
Thom Hartmann
#50. Love is fragile
she was thinking
but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#51. ...I'd like to know what you want out of life."
"I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.
Anita Higman
#52. The world rolls and somewhere out there are things I don't know. Let us sleep on God and mystery, a quiet, fragile ship floating on the sea, behold sleep.
Clarice Lispector
#53. Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.
Neil Gaiman
#54. Before his dreams had been fragile, insubstantial things, like strands of gossamer and they would fall apart and fade as soon as his eyes opened to the light of a new morning.
John Carter
#55. I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.
Courtney Summers
#56. She wept easily. This did not mean that she felt things more deeply than others did. It certainly did not mean that she was fragile or sentimental or ready to bring that sodden leverage to bear on the slights that came with being the baby of the family.
Marilynne Robinson
#57. The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.
William J. Brennan
#58. 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
#59. Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state of accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order.
Kevin Hooyman
#60. I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.
Stephen King
#61. I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.
Kevin Nealon
#62. The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
Cormac McCarthy
#63. I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.
Neil Gaiman
#64. Minion looked into the fragile belly of the duck for the third time. 'It's still not here, Master.' He shook his head in a slow, confused fashion. 'Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Lish McBride
#65. Falling as deeply in love with as many people, places, and things as you possibly can -- that's the best revenge on the unjust brevity of this fragile life.
Marc Parent
#66. Few things are strong enough to survive that deadly clash of mania and depression. Certainly not love. Love is far too fragile: it is a picture window, just begging to be shattered.
Terri Cheney
#67. I really didn't think this was going to happen. I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don't happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#68. Fantasy isn't about escape; it's a survival mechanism. It's a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, something to be cherished and protected because it's a very fragile thing and without it, we're so defenseless, we're paralyzed.
The Martian Child David Gerrold
#69. Do great things, Laure, be happy, or at least do your best to be. Life is fragile
Antoine Laurain
#70. We are Fragile, everyone. We all long for something more. Things are said and things are done and the pieces hit the floor. See how fragile.
Ralston Bowles
#71. These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton Senna
#72. What worries me the most is that most men are so weak. Because of that they act like they don't care and like machos - because they are too fragile inside. They're scared of confrontation and afraid of so many things.
Salma Hayek
#73. To love is not to be fragile; it is to be unlocked and open. And when something is open, other things can come in.
Susan Meissner
#74. Leadership is fragile. It is more a matter of mind and heart than resources, and it seemed that we no longer had the heart for those things that demanded discipline, commitment, and risk.
Gene Kranz
#75. Let all the green leaves be mine
as long as the trees define
shades created by their limbs
for the soil made with victims
of atrocity's vileness
to redeem the fragileness
Munia Khan
#76. Oh, I suppose all men of intelligence know how fragile such things as Law and Justice and Civilization really are, but it's not a thing they think of willingly, because it disturbs one's rest and plays hob with one's appetite.
Stephen King
#77. She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.
Paulo Coelho
#78. Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.
Juliet Marillier
#79. I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.
Robin Gibb
#80. I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.
Guillermo Del Toro
#81. People did crazy things for love. And being responsible for someone else's feelings like that felt powerful and terrifying. As if I'd been given some delicate and fragile object to carry over rocky and uneven terrain with shaky hands.
Stacey Kade
#82. Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.
Elizabeth Scott
#83. How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.
Nancy E. Turner
#84. If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
Charles Stanley
#85. Ikenna was a fragile, delicate bird; he was a sparrow. Little things could unbridle his soul. Wistful thoughts often combed his melancholic spirit in search of craters to be filled with sorrow.
Chigozie Obioma
#86. ... life is as fragile as a butterfly win and we must carry it lightly. Sometimes it will sit happily in our hands, sometimes it will fly away from us, but in the end
no matter the distance or the complications in between
the things we truly care for will always come back to us.
Hazel Gaynor
#87. But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man's journey towards his future.
Madeline Claire Franklin
#88. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
Chuck Palahniuk
#89. Some things aren't meant for this world. They're too fragile, and life breaks them.
Vikki Wakefield
#90. I understood in a moment of stillness,' Litima read. 'Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate.
Brandon Sanderson
#91. Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox ... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.
Joan Jett
#92. Before you, I was a doubled-up fist - now I can hold soft things, fragile as butterfly wings ...
John Geddes
