Life Isn't Simple Quotes

#1. There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.

Saul Bass

#2. Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

Jean Fernel

#3. Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

Yann Martel

#4. 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

#5. Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

Mark Slouka

#6. Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

Ann Voskamp

#7. The purpose of philosophy isn't complex theorizing, it is simple and clear thinking in relation to life's big questions.

Steven Colborne

#8. I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it ... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.

Sharon Tate

#9. I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

David Crane

#10. The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

Anton Yelchin

#11. The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens.

Robert M. Price

#12. Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?

Gillian Flynn

#13. It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be.

Claire Cross

#14. Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

Wilbert Rideau

#15. Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

Kate Milford

#16. Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

Alexandra Potter

#17. Life isn't that simple; it's not black and white. You have to take the light with the dark, and all the shadows in between.

Simone Nicole

#18. Love isn't simple, Katie, and neither is life. Things that are worth having are sometimes complicated, and they evoke complicated emotions. You know, one of the reasons people often turn to alcohol or drugs is that they can't deal with complications.

Catherine McKenzie

#19. If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

Viggo Mortensen

#20. What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once.

Ashly Lorenzana

#21. What you give comes back to you. It's not tit for tat
life isn't that simple
but what you give always comes back to you.

Anne Bishop

#22. Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.
With your own voice,' he said.

Erica Jong

#23. Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.

Demi Moore

#24. It's quite simple. Death isn't what we think it is. It isn't life which ends but time which stops.

Henri Riviere

#25. An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

Sri Chinmoy