Fiction Quote by Frances Stead Stellers

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to…

— William P. Young

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

— David LaChapelle

“Each story wanted, no—needed—to reveal a human fragility, a human bondage which tied people to the things they did and to be the person…

— C.J. Roberts

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human…

— Paul Harding

Dreaming about love is too fascinating, but to wake up and face the reality is painful.

— Anonymous

“his mind wandered ceaselessly, hopping from memory to make-believe and then to his grim reality in a painful loop.”

— Peter Meredith

“The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic”

— Edith Wharton

When you fall in love with the one who belongs to someone else, acknowledging the reality is painful.

— Anonymous

Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard…

— Aaron Swartz

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

— Barry Diller