Quotes About Complexity

When he admires the man he calls his father: a man slightly above the scum of the earth—what does that speak about he who admires him?

If I've learned one thing, it's that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything's mixed. There's no absolute good and there's no absolute evil. There's just a lot of confusion.

It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

How perfectly evil spirit and beauty can combine in one person, harmonically supplementing each other.

Understanding life is like trying to put together a puzzle with pieces that don't fit.

Feelings are murky, contrived and confusing. And the worst thing about them is no matter how hard you try, you can never sort them. They tangle more and more with thinking.

I'm a beautiful mess of contradiction, A chaotic display of imperfection.

Life is not meant to follow a pattern. Every moment has a multitude of realms.

Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

I'm in love with everyone I've ever met in one way or another. I'm just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.

Love isn't complicated, people are.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

I don't think you can really define love

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.