Anne Sexton Quotes

Jeezum—humans were like eggshells.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say With every word I'm blown away You're in control of my heart

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

We're all so damned fragile.

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.