#Fragility Quotes

“There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.”

“Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.”

“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”

“Love is easily killed.”

“Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.”

“This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.”

“Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.”

“The small is easy to scatter.”

“The brittle is easy to shatter.”

“Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.”

“if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”

“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”

“The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.”

“Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.”

“In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.”

“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”

“Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”