Fragile Quotes

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. (Germaine Greer)
Beauty is a fragile gift. View quote
Ovid
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. View quote
Margaret Mead
When we speak the word "life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. View quote
Donald Judd
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! View quote
Richard Feynman
Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return. View quote
Peter Lerangis
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. (Tennessee Williams)
Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural. View quote
Gao Xingjian
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones. View quote
Mary Balogh
Comedy writers have the most fragile egos. View quote
Mindy Kaling
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex. View quote
Jerry Rubin
Reality is a fragile thing. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is. View quote
Valentina Tereshkova
Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile. View quote
Emma Bonino
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. (Paul Samuelson)
I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn't be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it. View quote
Daniel Tammet
She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. View quote
Ayn Rand
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space. View quote
Alan Shepard