Quotes about Fragility

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.

Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”

its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,