Quotes About Complexity

He was a liar and a charmer, a heartbreak and a brute.

was a terrible believer in things, but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith, or if there was such a place, or even precisely what the word faith meant, in all of its complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.

My love for him was indisputable, but my allegiance to him wasn't.

The answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right-wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain. We are a complicated people. Our lives do not play out in absolutes.

think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain.

Humans are beautifully imperfect and complex. We're horny, ass-saving, ego-driven drug fiends, among other, more noble things.

The point is, Johnny, you get to say. You get to define the terms of your life. You get to negotiate and articulate the complexities and contradictions of your feelings for this woman. You get to describe the particular kind of oh-shit-I-didn't-mean-to-fall-in-love-but-I-sorta-did love you appear to have for her.

I think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain. We are complicated people. Our lives do not play out in absolutes.

Your voice was joy and pain, anger and forgiveness, love and heartache all wrapped up into one. I suppose that's what we all are. You helped me understand that.

I learned that programming was mostly typing. To this day, I don't understand why software development takes so long.

Think about this, the people gave birth to me cannot stop hating each other enough. What does that tell you about me? Half of my genes must be fighting with other half, no wonder I am so fucking messed up.

Figuring out women is harder than topping a ManPro Quiz.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.

There are things some people can never understand. There's no point telling them.

This is how we girls are. At times we want to be wanted, even when we deny it.

Why did we grow up? Things were so much simpler earlier. -Aarti

Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.

To cut the Gordian knot is not the same as to untie it. Children and lunatics cut what the poet patiently spends his life in trying to untie.

The human mechanism is marvelous. But why not — it is the result of three-and-a-half billion years of tinkering.

A Gemini is a cross between a drunk and a genius.

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.

What makes it so hard to organize the environment sensibly is that everything we touch is hooked up to everything else.

Scorpios may seem light, happy, and cheerful but are secretly carrying some of the darkest emotions you can imagine.