Fragile Quotes

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

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.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

The searing light of morning Asks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

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.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

When we look down at the Earth from space we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet; it looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.