Fragility Quotes

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

A republic—if you can keep it.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.

I bruise like a grape.

What falls away is always. And is near.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

The best instituted governments carry in them the seeds of their own destruction; and though they grow and improve for a time, they will soon tend visibly to their dissolution. Every hour that they live is an hour less that they have to live.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.