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Quotes About Complexity

Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
~ Philip Larkin
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
~ Plautus
I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.
~ Rafe Esquith
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.
~ Richard P. Feynman
You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.
~ Rico Lebrun
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.
~ Robert Browning
I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.
~ Ruth Wilson
I love books about dysfunctional families.
~ Sara Shepard
I love playing darker roles, or roles with meat. I feel very comfortable in that environment. I don't know why. I don't know what that says about me. I really enjoy doing complicated characters.
~ Shailene Woodley
She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
~ Sherman Alexie
I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.
~ Sofia Coppola
No matter how much we love someone, or think we know them, we can never know what it is like to be inside them.
~ Suzanne LaFleur
Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.
~ Taylor Swift
Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.
~ Terry Pratchett
Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.
~ Tom Robbins
Simple mechanisms do not love.
~ Umberto Eco
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
~ William Faulkner
Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
~ William Shenstone
Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
~ Yash Chopra
I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
~ Ann Patchett
I love female-driven drama, and those kinds of characters. I really love complex women.
~ Anna Silk
You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy lady.
~ Annabella Sciorra
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
~ Anne Lamott
We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.
~ Anne Robinson