Quotes About Complexity

No one understands anyone else.

Other people's understanding of us is made up of so many complex misunderstandings. Anyone who wants to be understood will never know the delight of being understood, because this happens only to the complex and misunderstood; simple souls, the ones whom other people can understand, never feel a desire to be understood.

Se mi capita di essere coerente, è solo per incoerenza della mia incoerenza.

Each of us is more than one person, many people, a proliferation of our one self.

What elaborate misconceptions form other people's understanding of us!

La vida es, en fin, para los indefinidos; sólo pueden convivir quienes nunca se definen, y son nadie los unos para los otros.

If men knew how to meditate on the mystery of life, if they knew how to feel the thousand complexities which spy on the soul in every single detail of action, they would never act – they wouldn't even live. They would kill themselves from fright, like those who commit suicide to avoid being guillotined the next day.

Compreender um ao outro É um jogo complicado. Pois quem engana não sabe Se não estava enganado.

Depending on how you look at it, anything can be both astonishing and an obstacle, everything and nothing, a way forward or a cause for concern. Looking at something differently each time means renewing it and multiplying it.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Un pensamiento no paradójico me resulta casi insoportable, un pensamiento cerrado en sí mismo, coherente, que no admite la paradoja (Fernando Savater)

El amor no es una condecoración, capitán. No siempre se concede al mérito o a la virtud. Para

What is a sheep only millions of little bits of sheepness whirling around and doing intricate convolutions inside the sheep? What else is it but that?

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

Most things are beyond me, Block said. I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood

The straightforward manner is seldom equal to the complications of the good subject. There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it added delectably to her martyrdom.

It's just like any other city and cities ain't all that complicated." But they were. New York was swishing and jamming one minute and dirty and dead the next.

L'âme humaine est plus complexe et vaste que tout.

The well-known passage in Micah 6:8 ('does the Lord require of you . . . ?') declares that justice and mercy are two foundational aspects of God's character. . . . forgiveness is by no means as simple or expeditious as is often suggested; it is a complex and demanding matter. The question of forgiveness and compensation really should not be discussed apart from the question of justice.

Fans don't even know what they want at times.

Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.

I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!