31 Quotes About Being Clumsy

Moving awkwardly and clumsily through life and leave you with regrets instead of embracing some of your greatest assets. Here is a look at some of the best quotes about being clumsy that will encourage and inspire you to accept your differences.

“A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.”

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

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

“Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.”

“Clumsy jesting is no joke.”

“I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner.” He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.”

“I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.”

“I don’t tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.”

“I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility – as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination.”

“I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe.”

“I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them.”

“I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I’m not, I’m not retarded.”

“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!”

“If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean – words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It’s a strange thing.”

“If you can’t imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.”

“If you’re OK with being clumsy, it’s funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.”

“Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive.”

“I’m not clumsy, I’m just accident prone.”

“Me and nice things didn’t go well together.”

“Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.”

“Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.”

“So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”

“Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.”

“Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.”

“Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.”

“There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam.”

“To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical.”

“We’re not destroying the world because we’re clumsy. We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”

“What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled!”

“Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.”

“You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say.”

There are many clumsy moments in life we find ourselves confronted with.