One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

-Gass,William H(oward)
  Interview in Paris Review, Summer.

Experience isnever limited, and it isnever complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching everyair-borne particle in its tissue.

-James, Henry
  'The  Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).

   Yet when I approach 584 Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

-Milton,John
   Adam speaking of Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.546^50.

Disillusionment inliving isthefindingout nobodyagrees with you . . .Complete disillusionment is when you realise that no one can for they can't change.

-Stein, Gertrude
  The Making of Americans, ch.5.

There was a muddy centre before we breathed There was a myth before the myth began, Venerable and articulate and complete.

-Stevens,Wallace
  NotesToward A Supreme Fiction,'It Must BeAbstract'.

To live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Travels with a Donkey,'A Night Among the Pines'.

That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 54, l.5^8.