Quotes Tagged With :fragility

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

Envy and respect are not the same things...Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether....

It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are.....

He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the....

In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are....

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed.....

Years vanish. Months collapse. Time is like a tall building made of playing cards. It seems orderly until....

The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness,....

It's the darkness of life. The light is here one day and gone the next. Only the fortunate get to take....

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep....