Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to…

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

— Charles Lamb

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

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

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

— Lillian Bassman

“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

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

“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in with a…

— Lauren Groff

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

— David Christian