Quotes About Incompletion

I've lost this sentence, I can't even finish it, don't know how—

El "etcétera" es el descanso de los sabios y la excusa de los ignorantes.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

I wonder if we'll ever meet My song of love is incomplete I'm just the words, looking for the tune Reaching for the moon and you

I'm not sure I'll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should've said.

Soltanto le costruzioni piccole possono essere portate a compimento dal loro primo architetto; le grandiose, le vere, lasciano sempre la pietra della cimasa alla posterità. Dio mi guardi dal completare alcunché. Questo intero libro non è che un abbozzo… anzi, non è che l'abbozzo di un abbozzo.

Camino pensado en la melancolía de este mundo que no se acaba de construir jamás.

Dean Philip Hinckler was prone to semi-sentences that expired, half-finished, in rhetorical cul-de-sacs.

God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

If your last words are somehow meant to encapsulate your entire existence, Liz finds um strangely appropriate. Um means nothing. Um is what you say while you're thinking of what you'll really say. Um suggests someone interrupted before they'd begun. Um is a fifteen-year-old girl who gets hit by a taxicab in front of a mall on the way to help pick out a prom dress for a prom she isn't even going to, for God's sake.

When a mother dies too young, something inside her daughter always feels incomplete. There's a missing piece she continues to look for, an emptiness she keeps trying to fill. The

There is nothing just in death. When the moment arrives, it is always too soon. The curse of incompletion, the loss that can never be filled. Before too long, rising like jagged rocks from the flood, there was anger.

He was like one who had half fainted, and could neither recover nor complete the swoon.

She stopped. It was as if her mind tripped on something. Her eye was caught by a dish-towel in the middle of the kitchen table. Slowly she moved toward the table. One half of it was wiped clean, the other half messy. Her eyes made a slow, almost unwilling turn to the bucket of sugar and the half empty bag beside it. Things begun—and not finished.

There are books I will never finish reading, games I will never finish playing, movies that I've started and will never see the end of. Ever. Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in.

Un día que no alcanzamos a ver nos despertaremos en un país genuinamente republicano y ejemplarmente democrático. No es el país donde estamos, sino a medias, según las sumas de bienes y males que cada quien quiera hacer para medir el país moderno a medias, eternamente inacabado, en que vivimos.

Unvollendete, Meredith said. Unfinished

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

object at the exact moment it achieved total success. Love always leaves the subject with a sense of its failure or incompletion, but this incompletion must be experienced as the indication of love's authenticity rather than its absence.

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

often an unfinished picture is all the more interesting for the bare canvas.

In each painting, I think, it's as if God were giving up on finishing the world.