Tenuous Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious. — Larry David
As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard. — Adora Svitak
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that… — Stephen Fry
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be… — Clive Barker
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. — Ellen Hopkins
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure… — Nick Bantock
These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I… — Alice Sebold
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… — Loren Eiseley
With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as… — Scott Westerfeld
Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small thingsâ€”like being guided slowly… — Sarah Dessen
When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken. — Stephenie Meyer
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own… — David Gerrold
I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily… — Janet Fitch
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth… — Stephen Jay Gould
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way… — John Green
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis,… — Anais Nin
Girls think theyâ€™re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, Iâ€™m going over to see… — John Green

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