life's intricacies Quotes

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to show how complicated it is as an individual, but also your relation between a complicated life and the complications you have inside you.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

I like exploring life and its complexities.

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?