There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we humans are. Once, when I was nineteen, on the subway in Boston I lost my balance slightly and bumped into an elderly woman. I quickly apologized and she replied, "Well, hold on to something, stupid." There it is. That's it. That's it in a nutshell. I don't want to sound negative, but I think every fetus should be shown a film of that incident, maybe projected up on the uterine wall, and then asked if it wants to come out. I am a strong believer in a woman's right to choose, but I also think that in the last trimester, the kid should be given every opportunity to back out.
Paula PoundstoneTags: life choice humanity babies birth imperfection flaw
[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature.
Tiffany MadisonTags: love power humanity nature mind selfish human-nature human human-condition violence illusion essence schopenhauer challenge redemption instinct lover flaw species instincts violent overpower procreation schopenhauer-as-educator
I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?
Haruki MurakamiTags: human weakness flaw breeze cicadas
In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.
Steve MaraboliTags: art god religion critic prayer flaw
The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in a way that comforts. She is mischief but then she is the warmth of home. The dreams of the wild and dangerous but the memories of childhood and gladness. She is perfection. And when given something perfect, it is the nature of man to dedicate his mind to finding something wrong with it and then when he is able to find something wrong with it, he rejoices in his find, and sees only the flaw, becoming blind to everything else! And this is why man is never given anything that is perfect, because when given the imperfect and the ugly, man will dedicate his mind to finding what is good with the imperfect and upon finding one thing good with the extremely flawed, he will only see the one thing good, and no longer see everything that is ugly. And so....man complains to God for having less than what he wants... but this is the only thing that man can handle. Man cannot handle what is perfect. It is the nature of the mortal to rejoice over the one thing that he can proudly say that he found on his own, with no help from another, whether it be a shadow in a perfect diamond, or a faint beautiful reflection in an extremely dull mirror.
C. JoyBell C.Tags: men humanity human-nature mankind perfection flaws mortal imperfection flaw mortals human-kind blind-men blindness-of-man mortal-men the-nature-of-man the-stupidity-of-man
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!
Charlotte BrontëTags: character personality flaw exasperation
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
William GoldmanTags: humiliation flaw inigo the-princess-bride william-goldman
So you fake and you flaw, for your cops and your cause. It makes no difference to me. It's love that you stole, that you stole.
Sara QuinTags: fake flaw tegan-and-sara sara-quin this-business-of-art love-that-you-stole no-difference-to-me not-with-you your-cause
Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?
Susan Elizabeth PhillipsTags: love flaw falling-in-love
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
Diane ArbusTags: flaw
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