Quote by George Orwell

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfect

Summary

This quote suggests that the true nature of humanity lies in our imperfections and vulnerability. It implies that it is innate for humans to not strive for perfection but rather to accept the difficulties and challenges that life presents. It highlights the willingness to embrace love for others, despite knowing that it may lead to heartbreak and disappointment. By recognizing the inevitable price of attaching our emotions to other imperfect individuals, it emphasizes the essence of humanity lies in embracing the imperfect nature of life and human connection.

By George Orwell

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countena

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.

William Shakespeare

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were onl

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

Ernest Hemingway

Help Literature

God's desire is that we excel.

God's desire is that we excel.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they t

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-t

We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exi

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we a

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Wangari Maathai

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from gove

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

James Branch Cabell

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistak

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportun

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.

George Saunders