Fragile?

"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."- Chuck Palahniuk

I like the idea that it's the "fragile" things that survive...but maybe it's simply that we have applied the definition of "fragile" incorrectly.
I hope that made sense to someone besides me. :)