Quotes about Fragility
She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with walls and become a house she can live in. Because if the tottering structure of her memories collapses like a clumsily pitched tent, all that Tamina will be left with is the present, that invisible point, that nothingness moving slowly toward death.
— Milan Kundera
its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.
— Daniel 2:33
As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent.
— Randy Alcorn
on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
— Ecclesiastes 12:3
Those who are easily offended and touchy are insecure.
— Joyce Meyer
The heart was made to be broken.
— Oscar Wilde
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
— Isaiah 2:22
Whom shall I trust, O Lord, whom shall I trust but Thee? Thou art the Truth, and deceivest not, nor canst be deceived. And on the other hand, Every man is a liar,(3) weak, unstable and frail, especially in his words, so that one ought scarcely ever to believe what seemeth to sound right on the face of it.
— Thomas a Kempis
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A Greek philosopher said, 'All men think it is only the other man who is mortal'. The way we scurry about accumulating things is testimony to our unspoken doctrine that we are exceptions to the law of death. The events of September 11, 2001, were a shocking reminder to millions of Americans of something we should have already understood - our mortality.
— Randy Alcorn
death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.
— Paul David Tripp
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
— Job 4:19