Quotes about Fragility
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The doctors told me' -- her voice sang on a confidential note-- 'that if any man alive had done the consistent drinking that I have, he would have been physically shattered, my dead, and in his grave--long in his grave.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
naked souls are poor things ever
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.
— DL Moody
I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.
— Alice Hoffman
A glass breaking on its own portended death.
— Alice Hoffman
The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.
— Joe Biden
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
— Anonymous
Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.
— Anonymous
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.
— Anonymous