Life & Wisdom Quote by Marguerite Young

“All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe” reads like a rebuke to perfection as a moral ideal. Marguerite Young doesn’t merely concede imperfection; she elevates it into a generative principle. The first clause lands with a plain, almost biological inevitability: “all creatures” collapses hierarchies between the human and the animal, the saint and the screwup. No exemptions, no purity politics. Then the pivot: “but out of the flaw” turns defect into origin story. The line isn’t trying to comfort you; it’s trying to rewire how you assign value.

Young’s subtext is distinctly writerly: the flaw is the crack where narrative begins. A flawless character is a mannequin; a flawed one is a plot. Even the syntax enacts it. “Flawed” is static, a label; “may come” is motion, possibility, birth. The universe doesn’t come from virtue, discipline, or mastery - it comes from the messy, unintended, humanly unreliable places where control breaks down and imagination rushes in to patch the gap.

Context matters: Young wrote in an American 20th century steeped in grand systems that promised order - religious certainty, political ideologies, social respectability - and repeatedly produced catastrophe or hypocrisy. Her line sides with the misfit and the marginal not as exceptions to be fixed, but as the engine of creation. It’s also quietly anti-shame. If the universe can be born from a flaw, then error isn’t just survivable; it’s potentially consequential, even holy in its own unsanitary way.