Quotes about complexity

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

— Martha Gellhorn

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

— Ezra Pound

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

— Wallace Stevens