Quotes About Complexity

BEING in love is a complicated matter; although anyone who is prepared to pretend that love is a simple, straightforward business is always in a strong position for making conquests. In

That was when I began to suspect that being in love might be a complicated affair.

A complicated situation appeared merely to be accumulating additional complicated factors.

Lovell was an odd mixture of realism and romanticism; more specifically, he was, like quite a lot of people, romantic about being a realist.

Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.

What had passed between Eleanor Harding and Mary Bold need not be told. It is indeed a matter of thankfulness that neither the historian nor the novelist hears all that is said by their heroes or heroines, or how would three volumes or twenty suffice!

No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.

And you know, aunt, I still hope that I shall be found to have kept on the right side of the posts. You will find that poor Lord Chiltern is not so black as he is painted.' 'But why take anybody that is black at all?' 'I like a little shade in the picture, aunt.

It is undoubtedly the case that things often become complicated which, from the greatness of their importance, should have been kept clear as running water

She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous — but not without a conscience.

Perhaps the most indispensable thing we can do as human beings, every day of our lives, is remind ourselves and others of our complexity, fragility, finiteness, and uniqueness.

Yo creo que eso es lo que hace a las relaciones con los demás tan interesantes: esa certeza de que, aunque nos lo propongamos, nunca los vamos a conocer del todo.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Alliances are complicated enough in victory, but in defeat they are bound to produce the worst recriminations imaginable.

As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences.

Love hate-are they really that different?

I wanted what she [her mother] had wanted, what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safely and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.

But I understood, now, her dilemma. I wanted what she had wanted, what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

it seems impossible for all things to be one.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholics?

Identity exists where the Complication and Unravelling are the same.

For [people] are good18 in one way, but in all kinds of ways bad

Jesus Christ, you people are complicated.