Fragility Quotes - Page 2

• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  World, Kind, Uncertain

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• 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.

  Jean Genet

  Flower, Jail, Delicacy

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

  Margaret Cho

  Race, White, People

  "'Quiero hablar de cómo podemos usar nuestra ira para sanar': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Entrevista con Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. 30 de septiembre de 2015.

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• The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love Is, Humanity, Three

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

  Sylvia Earle

  Océano, Corazón, Mar

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• Dios no se revela en la fuerza o el poder, sino en la debilidad y fragilidad de un recién nacido.

  Pope Francis

  Fuerza, Dios, Cristiano

  Pope Francis "La bendición de la familia: Palabras inspiradoras de Pope Francis", Franciscan Media

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

  Simone Weil

  Stars, Giving, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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

  Norman Cousins

  Vida, Respeto, Hombres

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• 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.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Masculine, Audience, Persons

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• 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.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Pensar, Sentir, Camino

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• Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Childhood, Youth

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.42

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• El blanco significa la fuerza de la fragilidad y la fragilidad del paso del tiempo.

  Martin Margiela

  Mean, White, Passage Of Time

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• The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Philosophical, Vision, Lasts

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• In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.

  William Styron

  Numbness, Body, Normal

  William Styron (1990). "Oscuridad visible: memorias de la locura", Random House Incorporated

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• ¿Quiénes fueron los necios que difundieron la historia de que la fuerza bruta no puede matar las ideas? Nada es más fácil. Y una vez muertas no son más que cadáveres.

  Simone Weil

  Ideas, Stories, Fool

  "Tres cartas sobre la Historia: Thophile de Viau" (escritas en 1938-1939)

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• 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.

  Tim Winton

  Hunting, Blood, Sea

  Tim Winton (2017). “The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes From an Australian Life”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• Lo insidioso del miedo al qué dirán los demás es que rara vez les oyes decirlo. Te imaginas lo que dirían. Imaginas que les importas tanto. La fragilidad de nuestro propio ego se apodera de nosotros.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Ego, Care, Imagine

  Jeff Jarvis (2011). “Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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

  Camille Paglia

  Civilization, Savages, Constant

  Camille Paglia (2017). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.261, Vintage

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

  Tony Blair

  Views, Insecurity, Entering

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Ser profundamente consciente de la fragilidad y el éxtasis me parece una parte esencial de estar vivo y vivir plenamente, y para mí no hay forma de separar esto de mis poemas.

  Alex Lemon

  Essentials, Alive, Way

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Martha Ronk

  Reading, Special, Climate

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

  Shauna Niequist

  Food, Thinking, People

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• But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

  William Hurt

  Thinking, Should, Frailty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Levels, Vulnerable

  "A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2013.

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