Virginia Woolf
Novelist
". . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude."
Clumsiness quotes
Clumsiness
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable."
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