Imperfect Quotes

626 Imperfect quotes by 472 unique authors

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden. — Karen Armstrong
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… — E. M. Forster
The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not… — Paul Cornell
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only… — Charlotte Bronte
From the inheritance series book one Eragon. Broom The sands of time cannot be stopped years pass whether we will them or not, but we… — Christopher Paolini
Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect.… — Jamie Ford
There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world… — Karen Marie Moning
He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd… — Christine Feehan
You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is,… — Jasper Fforde
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which… — Milan Kundera
But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "We… — Megan McCafferty
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being… — Michael Moorcock
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for… — Virginia Woolf
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. — Fernando Pessoa
She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults,… — Nicholas Sparks
All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. — Haruki Murakami
But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends. — Ted Dekker
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. — Amy Bloom
Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird. — Unknown Author
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth… — Dean Koontz
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity — Thomas Hardy
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious. — Haruki Murakami
Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are! — Nnedi Okorafor
I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect… — Sarah MacLean

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