Clumsiness Quotes

“All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?”
― Stephenie Meyer

“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Me and nice things didn't go well together.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head.”
― J. Lynn, Wait for You

“Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.”
― Rachel Caine, Fall of Night

“He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“If you are a clumsy person, you will bang some part of your body, or get it caught and pinched in something, or have something twisted around the wrong way because you have done the wrong thing because you are clumsy. It will hurt, so you will be sore, and it likely someone will be looking at you, wondering how on earth you managed to bang or catch or pinch or twist yourself doing something that everyone else does all the time without incident, so you will be embarrassed. A peculiar thing about being embarrassed is that once you have decided to be embarrassed, you become less embarrassed.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work — and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“…her clumsiness, which is only her body wanting contact with things, wanting not to walk through the world but into it”
― Reese

“I venerate an honest obliquity of understanding. The more laughable blunders a man shall commit in your company, the more tests he giveth you, that he will not betray or overreach you. I love the safety, which a palpable hallucination warrants ; the security, which a word out of season ratifies. And take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his com position.”
― Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia

“Things could be messy and clumsy the first time you try something. But with time, the mess starts to disappear.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Not wanting her to become discouraged, Giles waved the tennis ball over his head, staying her swing before she could miss and send another ball flying backward into the Ashley River or smacking into the net. It was a miracle she hadn’t lobbed a ball through one of the long windows of the house. 'You’ve done wonderfully for your first lesson, but let’s say we call it a day?”
― Grace Hitchcock, Hearts of Gold Collection

“A lock that is hard to open and a key that is so delicate that it will break! If you break the key, the door will be even harder to open! Some problems require delicacy, time, and skill, and when you encounter such problems, stay away from rudeness, hastiness, and clumsiness, yes, some things definitely require art to handle them!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I just seem to alienate those around me, though I don't mean to. For one thing, I know I'm very clumsy. Whether on or off the job, everything takes time and effort for me. Nothing comes naturally to me here, everything feels like such a big ask, and every face is a void. But perhaps it's always been that way for me, even before I came on board.”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees