Fragility Quotes · Page 2

“Fragility is defined as a susceptibility to variation.”

— Rich Jolly

“He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.”

— David Jones

“He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.”

— George Saunders

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

— Anonymous

“Perhaps that’s its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances…” He paused. “…are often deceiving.”

— Julie Anne Long

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

— Camille Paglia

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a…

— Dagmar Godowsky

Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's…

— Alex Lemon

“The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of…

— Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen

White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm…

— Margaret Cho

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich,…

— Tariq Ramadan

We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at…

— Peter Maurer

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse…

— Greg Kinnear

There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards…

— Tariq Ramadan

Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent…

— Sigmund Jahn

Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can…

— Randy Komisar

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Love’s like an egg. Break it, and you might still have almost every bit of yolk and white, but there’s no way…

— Cath Crowley

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

— Kayla Severson

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

— Lauren Groff

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things…

— Anonymous

If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys, to the beauty and fragility…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul…

— Anne Roiphe

In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's…

— Cornel West

“He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things…

— Taiye Selasi

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of…

— James Hillman

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

— Kofi Annan

“Such an awful fragility of love he thought that plans are made and broken and remade in these gaps between rational behavior.”

— Helen Simonson

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

— Peter Rollins

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

— Tony Blair

“...allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...”

— John Geddes

“Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.”

— Rachel Caine

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

— Norman Cousins

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

— Peter Drucker

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

— Irwin Redlener

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

— David LaChapelle

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

— Walter Scott

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

— Simone Weil