Simplicity Quotes

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.

~ Henry James

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

~ Henry David Thoreau

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

~ Tennessee Williams

The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated.

~ Marty Rubin

My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That's what I've been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care.

~ Sue Bender

What’s the most difficult thing you can do? Live simply. ‘Cause in order to be self-sufficient, you got to get well near everybody else to work for you.

~ M.c. Humphreys

Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow – that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds.

~ Confucius

If one bite fills you, you don't need two.

~ Marty Rubin

It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. (Interval In Sunlight)

~ Ray Bradbury

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.

~ Patrick White

Haven't you ever thought of livingunconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth,close to pears and the mossy dark,far from human voices and

~ Nâzım Hikmet

Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.

~ Karen Essex

Simplicity IS the new EDLP (every day low price)!

~ Ted Rubin

My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are.

~ Marty Rubin

Truth, simplicity and love. These are the three main aspects of Eden Fruitarianism which the acolyte seeks to embrace, expand and better understand.

~ Mango Wodzak

Simplicity within itself is just another complication.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

You don't need more space. You need less stuff.

~ Joshua Becker

Simplicity is a sign of being awake.

~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.

~ Pearl Zhu

Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

~ Kathy Gottberg

In walking, we acquire more of less.

~ Robert Moor

She tore off a piece of baguette; it was both crusty and soft, still warm in the centre. It was amazing how something so simple, so basic could be this delicious.

~ Kathleen Tessaro

Do you understand what’s going on here?”Hodgesaargh took another slow look at the scene. “No,” he said.“In that case’s not my job to understand this sort of thing,” said the falconer. “I wasn’t trained. Probably takes a lot of training, understanding this. That’s your job. And her job. Can you understand what’s going on when a bird’s been trained and’ll make a kill and still came back to the wrist?”“Well, no—”“There you are, then. So that’s all right. Cup of tea, was it?

~ Terry Pratchett

When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.

~ Bremer Acosta

I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on. I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got something to prove. I want to listen to my body, fall asleep when the moon is high and wake up slowly, with no place to rush off to. I want not to be governed by money or clocks or any of the artificial restraints that humanity imposes on itself. I just want to be, boundless and infinite.

~ Unknown

Simple is never that simple.

~ Philip Roth

A woman to suck a dick... isn't a fact or mystery or complexity... it's simplicity. You just dial a number... to order a BIATCH.. .

~ Deyth Banger

I know that scenario... that You are going to die... bullshit and bullshit I was next to you what did I fucking get?- Simple answers of so complex questions... So simple questions and so complex answers... I never mean that and I never wanted that to happen.

~ Deyth Banger

Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.

~ Natalie Babbitt

Life can be simple, it ain't easy. So don't take the easy option. Challenge the resistance, challenge yourself, become great

~ Tony Curl

A beautiful sidenote is, once the toxins and dramas are removed, you purify your life. Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life? Simple and pure!

~ Tony Curl

Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.

~ Amy Harmon

Life always refused simplicity.

~ Julian Barnes

...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.

~ Eugenia Cheng

I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.

~ Ron Swanson

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

~ David Byrne

Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. 'Strider' I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

When we focus on people and life instead of material possessions and mere wants, there's not much room for emotional hand-wringing. Instead, there's more space to weigh what we value in our lives and to acknowledge what really counts. Chapter 9 Simplicity Laura Ingalls in The Long Winter

~ Erin Blakemore

Modesty of a way of living,makes it worth while.Petra Hermans

~ Petra Hermans

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

~ David Brin