Quotes About Incompleteness

En vérité, l'homme est l'être le plus curieux du monde, murmura-t-il. Il voudrait voler comme un aigle mais il n'a pas ses ailes. Il voudrait avoir la force du lion, mais il n'a pas ses pattes. Comme tu l'as créé terriblement incomplet, Seigneur ! Et en prime, tu lui as donné l'intelligence et le pouvoir de connaître ses faiblesses.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Prayer is an expression of who we are…. We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

E quem não se considera incompleto e insuficiente, não deseja aquilo cuja falta não pode notar

And her eyes filled with heavy, regretful tears, yet she did not quite know for what she was weeping. She only knew that some great sense of loss, some great sense of incompleteness possessed her, and she let the tears trickle down her face, wiping them off one by one with her finger.

Lo erróneo puede ser rechazado como falso, pero también superado como incompleto. Lo diferente puede ser combatido como incompatible, pero también aceptado como complementario.

They seemed to have thought of everything, but they were human, and therefore they had definitely not thought of everything.

The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist except when written, but whose absence is obscurely felt by that which exists, in its own incompleteness.

Il libro dovrebb'essere la controparte scritta del mondo non scritto; la sua materia dovrebbe essere ciò che non c'è né potrà esserci se non quando sarà scritto, ma di cui ciò che c'è sente oscuramente il vuoto nella propria incompletezza.

Io, invece, in mezzo a tanto fervore d'interezza, mi sentivo sempre più triste e manchevole. Alle volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane.

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

Something was missing. I couldn't tell you what it was if you asked but it was off. And if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

That feeling you get when you know you are forgetting something, but you don't know what.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls.

So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

When I used to dream about that somebody they never had a face. It was more like a feeling.

Me without you is like Pepsi without cans. Pedophiles without vans. Jersey shore without tans.

In the surface world our ability to make things happen is very limited. This limitation is a reflection of the incompleteness of a world without the spirit realm. So Spirit is our channel through which every gap in life can be filled. But the spirit realm will not take care of these gaps without our conscious participation. Thus our collaboration makes us central to the actual happening of a ritual.

On n'aime que ce qu'on ne possède pas tout entier.

I seem to know that there's a part of you missing. Some men can't see the color green, but they may never know they can't. I think you are only a part of a human. I can't do anything about that. But I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible if you knew it was there and couldn't see it or feel it.

There's a part of you missing. Some men can't see the color green, but they may never know they can't. I think you are only a part of a human. I can't do anything about that. But I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible if you knew it was there and couldn't see it or feel it.