Quotes About Complexity

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Jack.  That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. Algernon.  Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow.  Don't try it.  You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.  They do it so well in the daily papers. 

Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief?

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. 

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope, in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Un matrimonio dovrebbe basarsi sulla reciproca incomprensione.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

With introverts, what you see is only a portion of their personality. The richest and most trusted parts of an introvert's personality are not necessarily shared with the outside world. It takes time, trust, and special circumstances for them to begin to open up.

Ah, me, she sighed. If marriage were as simple as love!

Emotions are ill-suited for creating systems, my father's friend said, disheartened, whereas that's what we're talking about.

Knowing what moral values and ethics are will not guarantee that good decisions will be made, but it will allow us to recognize that some problems have moral dimensions.

Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.

She's really amazing, Darius said as he gazed lovingly after her. If by amazing you mean a total pain in the butt, then I'll agree with you.

the one consistent thing I have found is that there really is no normal when it comes to women.

The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of sense. I had known him, once or twice, show an almost human intelligence. But to reach that stratum, mind you, you needed dynamite.

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

He was conscious of a wish that he understood girls. Girls, in his opinion, were odd.

I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that's why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV

My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold, my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead, love, I love you because you are clear and dark.

My love has two lifetimes to love you. That's how I can love you when I don't, and still love you when I do.

Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo puesto que de dos modos es la vida, la palabra es un ala de silencio, el fuego tiene una mitad de frío. Yo te amo para comenzar a amarte, para recomenzar el infinito y para no dejar de amarte nunca: por eso no te amo todavía. Te amo y no te amo como si tuviera en mis manos las llaves de la dicha y un incierto destino desdichado. Mi amor tiene dos vidas para amarte. Por eso te amo cuando no te amo y por eso te amo cuando te amo.