Quotes About Complexity

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

We live longer but less precisely and in shorter sentences.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

No hay nada en la vida que sea solo bueno o solo malo.

Can we actually "know" the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

Society is complex and harsh, demanding that you struggle hard to survive. No one can make you happy. Everything depends on you as to whether or not you attain happiness…. A human being is destined to a life of great suffering if he is weak and vulnerable to his external surroundings.

Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

In China we say, "You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet." Sometimes love can be ugly. But one still has to take it and swallow it.

Once love is brought down to earth, and weighed, it's over, it's dead. – But don't you agree that real love is the love that's brought down to earth? It's only real when it's mixed up with dirt and sweat. Otherwise, it's just for puppies and adolescents!

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

My desires seemed simple and terribly complicated at the same time: to gaze at Jun's wet body and to make Rie cry. These were the only things that gave me comfort.

Matematyka jest jak gwiazdy, nie da si? wyja?ni? ich pi?kna.

I wonder how she broke the news to her husband. I don't really know what they talk about when I'm not around. In fact, I don't really understand couples at all. They seem like some sort of inexplicable gaseous body to me—a shapeless, colorless, unintelligible thing, trapped in a laboratory beaker.

Wie sehr wir uns auch bemühten, den anderen zu verstehen, es gab immer etwas, das sich unserem Verständnis entzog. Und je mehr wir darüber redeten, desto deprimierender wurde es.

If that were the case, they wouldn't be so difficult to understand and there'd be no need for mathematicians.

All the words are not enough to get anything said.

Le poisson rouge ne peut ramener la complexité des océans à la quiétude de son bocal. (p.185)

Nous sommes aussi l'ensemble des fantômes qui nous hantent... nous sommes plusieurs personnages en un, si convaincants dans les différents rôles que nous avons assumés qu'il nous est impossible de savoir lequel nous avons été vraiment, lequel nous sommes devenus, lequel nous survivra.

That is how desirable women are, my boy: a little superficial, a little absentminded, inclined to nebulous ideas.

just because an idea is simple, it isn't necessarily easy to follow.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron!