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Quotes About Complexity

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
~ Walter de La Mare
Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.
~ Jack White
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
~ Oscar Wilde
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
~ William Klein
I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
~ James Patterson
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
~ Stephen King
I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.
~ Helen Mirren
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved
~ Charles Darwin
I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.
~ Edith Wharton
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
~ Jeniffer Niven
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.
~ Antony Flew
Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.
~ Richard Rohr
Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.
~ Adrian Tan
I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.
~ Chris Evans
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
~ Cullen Hightower
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
~ John Green
There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.
~ Gary Zukav
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.
~ Bill Henson
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.
~ Kenny Chesney
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
~ Alexander Skarsgard
Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?
~ Jane Jacobs