Naomi Alderman Quotes

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

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.

Every person is flawed. Do you think perfection exists? You, me, everyone - we have strengths and shortcomings; that's what makes us human.

Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

I'm not a perfect human being.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

Conservatives believe that human nature is what makes us imperfectible. Liberals believe that human nature can be changed and perfected.

Man is never perfect, nor contented.

You just want so badly to be the best version of what people are saying, you want to look like the covers you're on, but it's hard to do that everyday.

Aren't all people flawed?

It's so easy to be pretty and perfect.

There's no such thing as being perfect, and that doesn't just mean the perfect body.

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

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.