Faith Ringgold Quotes

Where there is too much, something is missing.

Too much is the same as not enough.

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

In all abundance there is lack.

There's not enough of me left over.

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

Being close ain't good enough.

Too few is as many as too many.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough.

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.

I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

My lord. It is too much, and not enough

That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.

I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration comes in. It's not the place we want to be, but it's the place our society requires that we be. There is no fulfillment there. So we become numbed, we become drugged, we become less than we are. And I think that we know that.

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

to live means to lack something at every moment