Top 139 Fragility Quotes & Sayings

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to protect it.

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

Skinniness is a new fashion. It reflects an obsession with youth, a suggestion of pre-adolescence when a female's fertility can be dominated. It implies vulnerability, feebleness and fragility.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass.

There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a situation they don't like.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

Singing in front of people, I learned a lot more about fragility and strength.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict.

The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

I remember when I first saw 'Guided by Voices'; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.

The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.

There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants - anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.

Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.

White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.