Quotes about Fragility

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.

A glass breaking on its own portended death.

The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!

Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

Sweet little flower of heavenly birth You were too fair to bloom on earth.

His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.

In spring, Granny would send me off to pick bluets, violets, and windflowers. As the weeks passed, she'd ask for yellow lady's slippers and bleeding hearts, then roses and white rhododendron clusters that grew along the stream. She'd always seem to know the day when the mayflies danced and died. When I'd come back from whatever venture she'd sent me on, she'd talk about how life was precious.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.