Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Being chaotic isn't cute.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

Strange are the ways of human behavior.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

There's no map to human behaviour.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

This life is messy.

History seems to be so clumsy.