Charles de Lint Quotes

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Aren't all people flawed?

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

People can relate to someone who isn't perfect.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

Erasers remind us there is no faultless human.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.