It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. – Joseph Addison
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. – Ieyasu Tokugawa
I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection. – Jenny Slate
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. – Ben Okri
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end. – Annie Besant
With ‘Girls’… I feel like there’s an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it’s always the imperfection I’m always more attracted to. – Adam Driver
If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect feature that focused them on sheer surfaces but rather an imperfection that allowed them to see into their uncharted depths. – Eugene Kennedy
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. – Ernst Fischer
I feel like the live record thing is something that I’ve been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I’m continuing to learn what works and what doesn’t work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record. – Josh Turner
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. – Joseph Butler
On the contrary, I’m a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film. – Walter Salles
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I’d rather be imperfect than perfect. – Sonam Kapoor
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. – Soren Kierkegaard
