Quotes About Imperfection

I realize that life isn't perfect - it can't be perfect. I can drive myself nuts trying to make it perfect, or I can just have a lot of fun with the kids.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

Oniton, like herself, was imperfect. Its apple-trees were stunted, its castle ruinous. It, too, had suffered in the border warfare between the Anglo-Saxon and the Kelt, between things as they are and as they ought to be.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

The greatest gift a writer can give himself is permission to write badly.

No hay en todo el Universo chapuza más grande ni trasto peor hecho que el cuerpo humano. Sólo las orejas, pegadas al cráneo de cualquier modo, ya bastarían para descalificarlo. Los pies son ridículos; las tripas, asquerosas. Todas las calaveras tienen una cara de risa que no viene a cuento. De todo ello los seres humanos sólo son culpables hasta cierto punto. La verdad es que tuvieron mala suerte con la evolución.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say ? it leaves me something to do.

If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world - out of our smallness and weakness. Our lives are awkward and fragile...

Adults, I understand, have many faults, they are not perfect—even though they have lived longer, even though they offer themselves as examples to children. They are larger, that is certain, and size has an unearned authority. But they are easily influenced, and they can be easily swayed.

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.

People are not perfect (except when they smile).

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Errare humanum est [To err is human].

Viver é como escrever sem corrigir.