desire for simplicity Quotes

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.

He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.

That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog