Quotes About Insufficiency

Some people think insufficiency means weakness and surplus means strength, but this impression is wrong.

Fear of having done the wrong thing—fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth—fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such endless fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.

I am myself. That is not enough. --from The Jailer, written 17 October 1962

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

But Josef does not feel sick. He feels clearheaded. To his mind the nostalgic insufficiency proves the paltry value of his former life. So I revise my diagnosis: "The patient is suffering from masochistic distortion of memory.

Those who are half alive demand what is missing in them, but deny it when it is presented to them, and they fear the proof of their own insufficiency.

We know our skills are insufficient for an activity with such vast consequences. We recognize that our hearts are too lacking in purity to lead others to holiness. Honest evaluation inevitably causes us to conclude that we do not have sufficient eloquence, wisdom, or character to be capable of turning others from spiritual death to eternal life.

So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.

Words are never enough!

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

It seems to be a sin in the eyes of nature to hide our insufficiency—just as much as to live entirely on our inferior side.

Imagination is linked as much to an awareness of the insufficiency of the world as we find it as it is to fantasy; it grows from a desire to assert contrary or alternative worlds in the face of the given.

The negative ego reminds you of every slight, every hurt, and every mistake, as well as of the insufficiency of your responses in order to install and maintain a fear-based reality.

An intellectual apparatus marked by a conscious knowledge of its insufficiency is an evolutionary aberration.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

Here are The Ten Illusions. Get to know them well so that you will recognize them when you encounter them. Need Exists Failure Exists Disunity Exists Insufficiency Exists Requirement Exists Judgment Exists Condemnation Exists Conditionality Exists Superiority Exists Ignorance Exists

No nos han presentado. —Tú sabes quién soy yo y yo sé quién eres tú, y... —... Y eso no va a bastar.

It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.

The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.

I wish I could have. I wanted to be enough to fill the universe inside of Jacob Grace. But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

You wouldn't like it much anyway," someone replied gently. "Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.