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Quotes About Complexity

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
~ Dean Koontz
You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.
~ John de Ruiter
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
~ Julia Glass
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
~ Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.
~ Rob Lowe
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
~ Anton Chekhov
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
~ Klaus Nomi
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
~ Mavis Gallant
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
~ Tennessee Williams
The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.
~ Toni Morrison
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
~ William Morris
It's ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There's many different sides to everybodys personality and there's just different colours to a personality.
~ Kelly Clarkson
All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.
~ Belva Plain
Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!
~ Robert Ringer
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.
~ Edgar Friedenberg
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
~ William Empson
At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table
~ Christie Hefner
I have three lives: actress, model, producer. Sometimes I'm aware that there's a fourth life, which is somewhat neglected, which is living a bit.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
~ Mark Twain
I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.
~ Mary Borden
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.
~ Grant Morrison
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
~ Helen Hayes
To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.
~ Isak Dinesen