Quotes About Incompleteness

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

The extreme idealist or formalist thinks of language in terms of how completely it represents the tiger, and since it can never fully get that right, would rather lapse into silence than speak.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

She has fame, beauty, wealth…and love. She's a woman who has everything. And now she wants a pet…with everything she had, she still feels incomplete…and she expects "Count D" to satisfy that.

The hardest dream of all is the dream of not being tormented by our unlived dreams. To cope with and accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition. To be complete in our incompleteness. To be free from the shackles of memory, and ambition, to be free from comparison to other people and other hypothetical selves, and to meet the moment without any other agenda, to exist as freely as time itself.

Hither and thither spinsThe windborne, mirroring soul;A thousand glimpses wins,And never sees a whole.

N)o explanatory hypothesis is more clear than the very act by which we take up this incomplete world in order to attempt to totalize it and to think it.

We perceive others as reflections and at the same time as lacunae in relation to ourselves. In effect, it is like a forbidden zone...With others, it will always be impossible to perceive them in their totalities--that is, to perceive them as they perceive themselves.

The incompleteness of the reduction is not an obstacle to the reduction, it is the reduction itself, the rediscovery of vertical being.

There's nothing wrong with your life because sometimes you feel lost or incomplete; this means you're "normal," growing, and exactly where you "should be" and all is well. You're not handicapped by your challenges and desires but blessed by them, even if they include missing a dearly beloved who was "ready" before you … you are blessed especially when you miss such a person, for the love you knew and still know.

Ya no me sentía completa. Pero entonces me di cuenta con gran pesar de que en el fondo nunca me había sentido completa. Y esa atroz reflexión me detuvo en seco. Era joven, tanto que de alguna manera era culpa mía que estuviese incompleta, pensé. No sabía que todo el mundo se siente así, que la parte esencial del desarrollo de las personas consiste en detectar cuáles son nuestros espacios vacíos y aprender a llenarlos uno mismo.

Our present experience, even our present Christian experience, is incomplete. But in Christ we have heard the complete tune; we know now what it sounds like and that we shall one day sing it in tune with him. Our present experience, with all its incompleteness, is meant to point us to the fact that we will one day wake up and arise from sleep. That, after all, is what resurrection is all about. It

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

The lives we live, he thinks, are filled with holes.

Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences is the aim.

Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences if the aim.

Godel continued drawing conclusions beyond the point where Einstein stopped.

Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility - he had an engaging earnestness about him. Unlike them, he realized his incompleteness as a person and strove to overcome that. One of the ways in which he did that was by reading. He didn't read much, or too widely, but attentively, looking for instruction, hints for self-improvement, and he read serious books.

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS12

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."5