Brit Marling Quotes

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

I'm full of contradictions.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Life is never free of contradictions.

There's a dark side to everything.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Life is extremely complicated.