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Quotes About Complexity

Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.
~ Nicole Krauss
It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.
~ Paul Theroux
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
~ Boris Pasternak
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
~ Francis Crick
Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
What is life without incompatible realities?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.
~ Matina Horner
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.
~ Mark Slouka, Brewster
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.
~ Jean Dujardin
Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?
~ J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Pretties
There are always loose ends in real life.
~ Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm
Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.
~ Brenda Shaughnessy
Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
Everything in life is gray, you know.
~ Jeannette Walls
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.
~ John Keats
All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.
~ Karen Lord
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.
~ Lewis Thomas