Quotes about Fragility
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
- Psalm 37:2
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Psalm 102:3
For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
- Psalm 103:14
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Psalm 103:15
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
- Psalm 109:23
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
- Psalm 129:6
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
Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,
- Ecclesiastes 12:6
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- Isaiah 2:22
though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
- Isaiah 17:11
My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isaiah 38:12
A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
- Isaiah 40:6