delicate emotions Quotes

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

Love is like ice in the hands of children.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow.

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbye

There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.