And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
Jack KerouacTags: honesty uncertainty fragility narrowness
Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.
Elizabeth WurtzelTags: fragility
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
Paulo CoelhoTags: love vulnerability fragility
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.
Neil GaimanOr maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
Cassandra ClareTags: fragility jocelyn-fray city-of-fallen-angels
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.
Brandon SandersonTags: life seeds power light destruction fire potential warmth fragility kings illuminate flames candle deadly rampage bonfires embryonic potency
Love’s like an egg. Break it, and you might still have almost every bit of yolk and white, but there’s no way you’re getting that back in the shell. And even if you could, there’d be still all the cracks.
Cath Crowley...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: nerd nerds clarity-of-thought modernity modernity-is-a-sickness fragility nerdiness modern-values internet-addiction robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness
We're all so damned fragile.
Jim ButcherTags: fragility dresden-files human-frailties
They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in with a gun or bomb.
It leaves him breathless at times, how much faith people put in one another. So fragile, the social contract: we will all stand by the rules, move with care and gentleness, invest in the infrastructure, agree with the penalties of failure. That this man driving his truck down the street won't, on a whim, angle into the plate glass and end things. That the president won't let his hand hover over the red button and, in moment of rage or weakness, explode the world. The invisible tissue of civilization: so thin, so easily rendable. It's a miracle that it exists at all.
Tags: humanity people civilization trust rules laws fragility social-contract
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