Fragility quotes
44 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility."
"Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy."
"There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance."
"There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts."
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"Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility."
"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility"
"An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty."
"things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision"
"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"
"Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception."
"Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards."
