Fragile Quotes

“If we are placed under the focus of collective scrutiny, our experience of mortality makes life fragile and intensifies the existential burden. It is not essential to avoid death or lament its inescapability but to embrace the absurdity and keep living fully, searchingly, or joyfully despite its incongruity. ("Living on probation")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“And now insane men adrift in a world without order formed a line at the door.  They rendered unto her every evil act brought into this world by God.  They fell upon her with brutality that none of them at any other time would have thought possible.  There was once no scenario that would lead them to behave this way.  At any other time in their life there were no words or arguments that could convince them to treat a woman with such wanton disregard.  No one now asked, “What brought me to this?” Not one of them asked, “Who are these men?  How did we end up here, doing these things? Who am I now?”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

“The trade-off between efficiency and resiliency is a trade-off between fragile and antifragile.”
― Roger spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“My dog, Willy, died a few years ago, but one of my great memories of him is watching him play in the front yard of our house at dusk. He was a puppy then, and in the early evenings he would contract a case of the zoomies. He ran in delighted circles around us, yipping and jumping at nothing in particular, and then after a while, he'd get tired, and he'd run over to me and lie down. And then he would do something absolutely extraordinary: He would roll over onto his back, and present his soft belly. I always marveled at the courage of that, his ability to be so absolutely vulnerable to us. He offered us the place ribs don't protect, trusting that we weren't going to bite or stab him. It's hard to trust the world like that, to show it your belly. There's something deep within me, something intensely fragile, that is terrified of turning itself to the world. I’m scared to even write this down, because I worry that having confessed this fragility, you know now where to punch. I know that if I’m hit where I am earnest, I will never recover.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“For all that "home" was considered a word of warmth and comfort, policemen knew better. Home is where the heart is, and the heart could be a dark and damaged place.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“Would you not call yourself fragile?'

'I am who I am.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Live in awe. Life is fragile. Be generous with your light.”
― Richie Norton

“...I am vulnerable. No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal.

I hate that most of all.

Even if by some miracle, I could be better than them, I will never be one of them.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“People's thoughts are as thin and fragile as lace, and they themselves as pitiable as lace-making girls”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Essential Kierkegaard

“Normal was such a fragile thing, so easily upset by even good intentions.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“A fantasy so fragile that all I taste is air when we kiss.”
― Hadinet Tekie

“Are you calling me weak?'

'No.' Mira squeezes my hand. 'Just... fragile.'

'That's not any better.' Dragons don't bond fragile women. They incinerate them.

'So she's small.' Mom scans me up and down, taking in the generous fit of the cram belted tunic and pants I selected this morning for my potential execution.

I snort. 'Are we just listing my faults now?'

'I never said it was a fault.' Mom turns to my sister. 'Mira, Violet deals with more pain before lunch than you do in an entire week. If any of my children is capable of surviving the Rider's Quadrant, it's her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“There were no kisses worth dying for. No souls worth merging with. There were many beautiful young men in the world, but Tella believed none of them could be trusted with something as fragile, or vulnerable as a heart.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“The waves dissolve into foaming petals, reminding me that something so powerful can also be quite fragile at the core.”
― Kiana Krystle, Dance of the Starlit Sea

“It was about five balls: life is about juggling five balls in the air. They are health, family, friends, integrity and career/achievement. These balls are not the same; the important thing to remember is that the career ball is made of rubber but the others are more fragile.”
― Paula Radcliffe

“It is the thinness of a single pane of glass that protects the life in the greenhouse from the cold of the winter. And we would be wise to remember that so many of the things that protect us are just as fragile.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You think about how fragile life is, about how quickly it goes by, how quickly things become lost. You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don’t think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain.”
― Terry Brooks, The Measure of the Magic

“And she didn't seem so unbreakable to him anymore. She seemed even smaller than the carefree lark he'd known before; seemed to him half the width of a wishbone.”
― Allie Ray, Children of Promise

“A woman, visible yet so invisible, whom the world thinks of as fragile, she turns that fragility into power.......”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“The aims of safety-ism were noble. They saw that young people were experiencing greater amounts of anxiety, stress, and depression than previous generations and sought to remedy their angst by protecting them from anything that could potentially harm or upset them.

But this is not how the human mind works. The human mind is not fragile—it does not need to be protected and cushioned from the hard surfaces of reality like a vase or piece of fine china. The human mind is antifragile—that is, it gains from discomfort and strain. That means to grow stronger, the human mind needs to regularly be confronted with difficult and upsetting experiences to develop stability and serenity for itself.”
― Mark Manson

“There is a striking correlation between the levels of fragility and levels of displacement. Fragile states are those that have no defence against mass violence. They are not invariably beset by mass violence: but each state is a house of cards.”
― Alexander Betts, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

“Trust is fragile. Yet, the forces that crush it are not. Therefore, the person who is willing to extend trust into an environment such as this must be fragile enough to understand the trust that they are giving, while strong enough to face the forces that seek to crush it. And it is this person who is not stymied by the shallowness of those who understand neither and therefore destroy both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Fragile as a leaf in autumn
Just fallin' to the ground
Without a sound”
― Norah Jones

“A life was so fragile, spun from magic impossible to understand...”
― M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

“The human heart is a fragile thing, easily broken yet capable of great resilience.”
― Sharyn McCrumb, The Ballad of Frankie Silver

“Sometimes it is okay for the not-so-okay to act like they are okay.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“What an ironic faith it was, that everything we would ever live, would one day be a memory, more fragile than life itself...”
― lauren klarfeld, Last words for the road

“We were as big as the ocean, but as fragile as an ego.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow, so give it everything you've got.”
― Tim Cook

“Thin, like paper, light and doughy in the middle, crisp and delicate as honeycomb at the edges, the appam is tempting even before it is filled with a ladle of lush vegetable curry. It shares many of the attributes of a pikelet or crumpet, a round disc of batter, bland and comforting, but stretched until its edges are as fine and crisp as Belgian lace. Of all the yeasted dough goods throughout the world, the appam is the lightest and, at its best, the most fragile.”
― Nigel Slater, A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts