Life Is Complicated Quotes

#1. In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

Elena Ferrante

#2. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. LIFE is simply COMPLICATED.

Shaikh Mustafa

#4. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.

Auliq Ice

#5. We're all human and life is complicated.

Mark Kozelek

#6. IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

A. N. Wilson

#7. I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler ... complicated, that is.

M.K. Alexander

#8. Love is not enough. Life and marriage is so much more complicated than this

Barbara Bartlein

#9. Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

Jim Rohn

#10. Eloise knew that it was so much more complicated than that. There are no trades in this life, and depression is a dark, dark doorway some people have no choice but to walk through.

Lisa Unger

#11. Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Lawrence Durrell

#12. It is not the grown man- the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated offspring- you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.

Jojo Moyes

#13. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.

Rick Van Ness

#14. It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

Woody Allen

#15. A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

John Irving

#16. Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

Rebecca Stead

#17. Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up.
Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#18. Later, he was to decide that Andrew's life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.

Neal Stephenson

#19. The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it ...

James A. Murphy

#20. Life is simple, it has always been. What is complex is our brain, and that's the main reason why we perceive life as being complicated. Embrace life for what you have and embrace life for who you are, as what you have others might envy and who you are might be secretly being admired by millions.

Jeekeshen Chinnappen

#21. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.

Cora Carmack

#22. I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.

Alastair Humphreys

#23. The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

Margaret Atwood

#24. learned that life is as simple or as complicated as you make it. I had chosen to simplify my life to include only the best things: my family, friends, and the mountains.

Jeff Alt

#25. I dig the toe of my shoe into the dirt. "It's complicated."
"Is it? Most complicated things in life are actually pretty simple at the core. We put so much extra nonsense in the middle that we can't even see how easy it really is.

Emery Lord

#26. Life is a contradiction. Minimalism and in its simplicity opens the door to complicated analysis not just to dust free spaces.

Rohan Chalmers

#27. I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

Lee Daniels

#28. My life has never felt more complicated, but this is a complication that I'd rather exist than not have at all.

Krista Ritchie

#29. Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

Fred Rogers

#30. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

#31. Life isn't the orderly black-and-white business we'd prefer it to be. It's messy and complicated and horribly blurred around the edges. All we can ever do is make the best of it. And maybe grab at those fleeting chances of happiness.' 'But never at the expense of anyone else's

Erica James

#32. Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.

Patricia Cornwell

#33. But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.

Marjane Satrapi

#34. Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what's still to come?

Judy Blume

#35. To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

Ian McDiarmid

#36. The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

Aleksandar Hemon

#37. Let go. Let go of all the stress and drama in your life. It's not worth it, and your body is far too important - too precious - to be bothered by a simple psych-out. You will figure it all out eventually, so why make life more complicated?

Matthew Moy

#38. Each moment of time that passes in my life is very important.
Because it strengthens my spirit to succeed in the complicated life.

Raathi Devi

#39. With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

Lucy Walker

#40. Life is not complicated or finicky, it will gladly take you anywhere you choose to go.

Mark W. Boyer

#41. Life is such a mysteriously complicated thing that no one should really presume to judge and condemn the behavior of anyone else.

Tennessee Williams

#42. What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.

Anita Moorjani

#43. Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Asif Kapadia

#44. Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#45. Life is complicated, but not uninteresting

Jerzy Neyman

#46. I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

Richard M. Nixon

#47. Life is too short to complicate it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#48. It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#49. Life is never simple. It's messy, complicated, and at times debilitating.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Wallace Stevens

#51. They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

Gardner Dickinson

#52. To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being.

S.I. Hayakawa

#53. What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

Klaus Nomi

#54. Some good can emerge from the most horrific of events. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative in every positive. Life is complicated, and a balanced person can see both sides.

Amish Tripathi

#55. Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy.

Subodh Gupta

#56. There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#57. It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#58. Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.

Ralph Marston

#59. Life is indeed terribly complicated - to a man who has lost his principles.

G.K. Chesterton

#60. Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

#61. One of the most important things I've learned in life is that complicated isn't always bad. Sometimes complicated is just complex.

S.L. Scott

#62. Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!

Joyce Meyer

#63. Life is complicated sometimes to be sure, but there are other times ... when life is just as sweet, and good, and simple as it seems.

Sarah Weeks

#64. How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!

Robertson Davies

#65. If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

Eleanor Clift

#66. Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#67. I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Rachel McAdams

#68. Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.

Anne F. Beiler

#69. Why is life so complicated ... ?' I asked.
'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#70. I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.

Traci Lords

#71. Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#72. Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Martha Stewart

#73. If life is no fun, it is because you are no fun. Your life is always a reflection of who you are ... Try this: Stop taking things, including yourself, so seriously. Life is not as complicated as you have made it out to be.

Larry Winget

#74. High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Boris Pasternak

#76. Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#77. The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

Terry Pratchett

#78. Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

Atifete Jahjaga

#79. Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

Amy Dickinson

#80. If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.

Frank Wildhorn

#81. Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice.

M O Walsh

#82. I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

James Patterson

#83. My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

Michael Jackson

#84. I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

Rokia Traore

#85. Why do so many people need help?! Life is not that complicated. You get up, you go to work, eat three meals, you take one good shit and you go back to bed. What's the fucking mystery?!

George Carlin

#86. One day at a time. One dream at a time. And one could say it's right and one could say it's wrong. And probably both would be right. Because life is both complicated and simple. Which is why there are cookies.

Fredrik Backman

#87. Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokonists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
But all I could say as a Christian then was, "Life is sure funny sometimes."
"And sometimes it isn't," said Marvin Breed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#88. Unfortunately I'm still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I'll wake up gay tomorrow! Here's hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!

Moby

#89. Full citizenship was, and to a large degree still is, predicated on keeping 'unacceptable' behavior private. This complicated relationship between the public and private is at the heart of LGBT history and life today.

Michael Bronski

#90. As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

Delia Ephron

#91. You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.

Kevin Brockmeier

#92. Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

Dean Koontz

#93. Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling through it, like a mild electric shock or a thrill, hat gives it a life of its own; it is visually analogous to a tremolo on a musical note.

Amit Chaudhuri

#94. My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

Laura Marling

#95. Life is just too short, too unpredictable and too complicated. Be happy no matter what, a smile sometimes is all you need

Shahid Kapoor

#96. If you can train yourself to be actionable instead of reactionary, you will break out of the negative space that is typically furnished with fear, uncertainty and inaction, and move into that peaceful zone of determination, power, decisiveness and growth. Life will become less complicated.

Carlos Wallace

#97. The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.

George Perkins Marsh

#98. Life is never simple or without challenges. If it is, it will not last long. So stop worrying that because your life is complicated you're doing something wrong. Enjoy the lessons in life, and the chaos they bring. It means you're alive!

Shane E. Bryan

#99. My dad once told me life would get complicated when I grew up. I'm guessing this isn't what he meant. My mom, on the other hand, agreed with him, and I'm guessing this kind of thing is exactly what she meant.

Susan Ee

#100. Yeah, life is complicated. But it's also very fucking short.
If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit ... the least you can do is try to forgive them.

Brian K. Vaughan