Fragility Quotes
Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.64, Routledge
...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.845, e-artnow
"A Thief’s Journal". Book by Jean Genet, 1949.
Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
"Three Letters on History: Thophile de Viau" (written 1938 - 1939)
Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.121