Blemish Quotes

“We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you must, snatch away our illusory happiness if you must, but please leave us our flaws for we do not wish to exist without them.”

“Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past.”

“Life is like the dirt we bury our dreams and fears in. It blemishes the way. As things tend to grow by the rain of our belief or doubts.”

“There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high right now. It's not altogether unlike a similar situation in seventeenth century Holland where wealthy merchants wanted their portraits done with all their blemishes included. It is the height of egotism in a sense to think even one's blemishes are of significance. So today Americans seem to want their writers to reveal all their weaknesses their meannesses to celebrate their very confusions. And they want it in the most direct possible way - they want it served up neat as it were without the filtering and generalizing power of fiction.”

“We're all a blemished spirit full of censurable faults”

“Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past”

“To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.”

“Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance.”

“Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.”

“The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.”