John Ruskin Quotes

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.

There is nothing perfect...only life.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Nobody has a perfect anything. We don't have perfect lives. We're not perfect beings.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

Not everything can be perfect.

In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.

Life is a four-letter word.

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

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

There is no perfection only life

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

We can only learn so much and live.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist

There's no victory-condition for being human.