Fragile Quotes

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.

~ John Piper

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. She understood why people talked about hearts breaking; she felt as if hers were made of cracked glass, and the shards were like tiny knives inside her chest when she breathed.

~ Cassandra Clare

It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.

~ Veronica Roth

But I hope you don’t feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache. Remember, you always will be.

~ Khadija Rupa

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

~ Elena Ferrante

Our life contains a thousand springs,And dies if one be gone.Strange that a harp of thousand stringsShould keep in tune so long.

~ William Billings

The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.

~ Sabaa Tahir

Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.

~ Anthony Liccione

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

~ Paul Harding

Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons.

~ Meg Donohue

She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.

~ Keirsten White

We who choose to surround ourselveswith lives even more temporary than ourown, live within a fragile circle;easily and often breached.Unable to accept its awful gaps,we would still live no other way.We cherish memory as the onlycertain immortality, never fullyunderstanding the necessary plan.

~ Irving Townsend

I've never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn't a word that fits June... but here, now that she's sick, I realize just how fragile she can be.

~ Marie Lu

Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness.

~ Munia Khan

Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?

~ Stacey Jay

Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.

~ Anthony Liccione

Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.

~ David Lee

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

~ Jenny Shipley

Beauty is a fragile gift.

~ Ovid

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

~ Donald Judd

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

~ Ovid

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

~ Germaine Greer

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

~ Julia Gillard