#incomplete

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #feels #i #i am #ideally

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#imperfection #incompleteness #shudder #silence #silence

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#compared #complete #each #else #god

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. ↗

— Elihu Root

#begin #causes #civilization #deal #extent

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. ↗

— Paul Valéry

#transformation #weariness #work #writing #death

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#everywhere #i #i think #incomplete #nature

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#incomplete #life #never #often #sadness

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#autobiography #biography #even #incompleteness #will

True love is a developed and intense appreciation for someone. It’s that perfect awareness that you are finally whole when she’s with you, and that hollow incompleteness you suffer when she’s gone. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#derian #devotion #eena #incompleteness #love

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#government #height #incomplete #millions #millions of dollars