Quotes about Fragility

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

But Jesus felt her yearning, her fragility masked by bravado. He always broke down barriers, never erected them.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.

Reality isn't fragile. If you doubt a rose, it doesn't wither and die.

Touching soap bubbles is another lovely metaphor.

Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside