Lana Wachowski Quotes

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

The happiest people are those with the fewest regrets. It is not because they have succeeded in everything they've tried; rather, they're happier because they at least put forth the effort - win or lose -and tried to make their thoughts and dreams a reality.

Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.