Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

Living life as normally as possible gives you a richer well of experiences to draw from.

A life of anybody is not perfect; there is always things that happen, and that is what makes it interesting.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

How plotless real life was!

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

Life has very little even ground.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes