Quotes About Complexity

FINE stood for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical.

FINE? Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical?

Jean Guy Beauvoir was loosely wrapped but tightly wound.

Fucked-up. Insecure. Neurotic. Egotistical.

An Asshole Saint," said Stephen. "Not the first. I think most were, weren't they? In fact, she wouldn't even be the first around here.

Evil is unspectacular and always human,

No one was who they seemed. Everyone was more.

That was often the equation, give up the few to save the many. From a distance it seemed so simple, so clear. And yet, from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance.

I'm not sure if you realize that mathematics isn't linear. It's a curve. And in the brightest, most nimble minds, it arcs around to meet philosophy, music, art." She laced her fingers together. "They're intertwined. If you listen to Bach, it's as much a work of math as music.

All the answers that sprang to mind were true, but there were levels to the truth.

Gamache again marveled at the people who chose to live in this area. Was Margaret Atwood a garbage collector perhaps? Or maybe Prime Minister Mulroney had picked up a second career delivering the mai. No one was who they seemed. Everone was more.

There is always another story / There is more than meets the eye.

The ways of the Creator, he knew, were hard to fathom. But not nearly as hard as the ways of the created.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Every human being is an archeological site.

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard.

Music, as you know, is an incredibly complex process, including conceiving, writing, studying, organizing, listening. The fabric of music has its roots everywhere. That's why it is so beautiful.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

When dealing with my mother, one always had to act in a delicate and prescribed way, though the exact rules of protocol seemed to shift frequently and without advance notice. One day, out of milk was a problem easily dealt with, but on the next it was a symbol of her children's selfishness, our father's failure, and her tragic, wasted life.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Deine Liebe macht mich zum glücklichsten und zum unglücklichsten zugleich.