Quotes About Complexity

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.

my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?

Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.

I feel like people are not cut and dry, in real life. Some people do cheat, but it doesn't mean that they don't love. Sometimes in movies, it's one or the other.

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express the essential truths of what happens when we love people.

love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark

Love makes everything complicated.

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.