Quotes about Fragility
I believe that if you are talking about economic stress, the systems of the world are very fragile, and if we put our hope and trust in the systems that men have created, they will guarantee failure.
— Myles Munroe
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life itself is a rickety building
— William Golding
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems
— Walt Whitman
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
— Og Mandino
Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
— Martin Luther
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
— Dante Alighieri