“The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.” WorldHumansFactsDesireHuman BeingsForeverAchieveEmotionalDespairIntellectualPerfectionSpeciesStriveDenialImperfectionDoomedSaddestArdent Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel
“My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.” WayHumansBookShowsFoundConditionsHuman NatureDespairPerfectionAbsolutesInevitablePessimismHuman ConditionAttemptingHandicaps Author:Stanislaw Lem
“With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.” I CanRunningFilmQualityImagineDespairPerfectionEssenceUpliftingExceptionEcstasyVitalitySurrealBittersweetAdjectivesParadoxicalBest Film Author:Damian Pettigrew
“You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.” KnowsArtFactsWisdomCausesImpossibleModernDespairPerfectionVariousQuarters Author:Morris West
“We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.” NeedsWorstDespairPerfectionForgiven Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.” WorldKindSoulBodyOrderSinVisionNeededDespairPerfectionPropertyStriveDepthGladLustCompareImaginaryNausea Author:Hermann Hesse
“In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust for perfection and seek it out. However, what meaning is there in perfection? None. Not a bit. ...After perfection there exists nothing higher. Not even room for creation which means there is no room for wisdom or talent either. Understand? To scientists like ourselves, perfection is despair. - Kurotsuchi Mayuri (Bleach 306)” WorldMeanRealityBitsRoomsForeverTalentCreationThis WorldFoolHigherDespairIllusionPerfectionScientistContraryLustMediocreBleach Author:Tite Kubo