Quotes About Complexity

A garden always includes many smaller gardens. Indeed, no garden exists as a single thing. By its nature, it is plural, just as each person is a symposium of cells, or an arch is a strength made from many weaknesses.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface. Sometimes she would feel it there and not even know its source.

It is time to venture out of the comforting land of either/or opposites and travel into the uncertain territory of both/and.

Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Familes are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.

Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.

He has explained why it is that ambiguity touches his heart more nearly than the death and marriage style of finish that i prefer.

There were some for whom the world was such a tricky thing that they marvelled at it without feeling any need to puzzle it out.

Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born…Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.

Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.

It's complicated' says either I'm too stupid to figure it out, or I'm not in the inner circle for privy information." Not

I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly's wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and cruel as the bitterness of life.

I glanced through another page in case I had missed something, and came to the description of Simon's face as he lay on the grass with his eyes closed. It gave me a stab in which happiness and misery were somehow a part of each other.

Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are some primitive desire for brutality makes them try to provoke it.

Because there's so much that just can't be said plainly. Try describing what beauty is - plainly - and you'll see what I mean.

And love is a force much misunderstood by humans, who put it into a very tiny, narrow little box.

I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own disasters.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.

I like simple men and complicated women.

The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.