Vulnerability of Life Quotes

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.

The day an actor is not required, the day no one is writing for you, is when you're actually dead… That's a very scary moment.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.