Gayle Forman Quotes

We live in a bewildering world.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Life itself is controversy.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.