Such an awful fragility of love he thought that plans are…

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing…

— Christopher Hitchens

“there was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of things, of…

— Thomas Hardy

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You…

— Jeff Jarvis

“We, like lace, make up the very fabric of society, the tapestry of togetherness that consists of holes, but also of threads that tie…

— Kayla Severson

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.

— Lillian Bassman

There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a…

— Claire Fox

Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face…

— Luis Gonzalez

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

— Charles Lamb

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one…

— Jean Vanier

In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of…

— Margot Wallstrom

The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to…

— Nikki Sanderson

“Those mornings were fragile things — like flowers blooming in the middle of a battlefield. She hadn’t realized then that the soil beneath them…

— Maggie Sn

“Our limited data force a sense of historical fragility: even as I nurture interpretation, I continually run the risk of creating it in my…

— Mark S. Smith

“Two people who live their lives alone in rooms doing strange, gentle things can sometimes be together in the middle of a dangerous storm…

— Samantha Hunt

I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,…

— John Flansburgh