I felt the vulnerability,
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. Gabrielle Roy
Fragility
Every profound dissatisfaction is
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute. Emile M. Cioran
An appearance of delicacy,
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty. Edmund Burke
nothing which we are
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility e. e. cummings
things which in my
things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision e. e. cummings
nothing which we are
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is … Read more
I like thinking about
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies – our decay and eventual death. David LaChapelle
[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he
[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! Dagmar Godowsky
The partition separating life
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
Any great artist is
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they’re transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death. Cornel West