Life Was Simpler Quotes

#1. Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.

Kiefer Sutherland

#2. If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it

Clive Barker

#3. An unsuspected yearning uncovered, discovered. For a simpler time and a simpler life. Before Internet, and climate change, and terrorism. When neighbors worked together, and separation was not a topic or an issue or wise.

Louise Penny

#4. A woman's death, through much of the same history, was thought to be a simpler thing, preferably quiet and uncomplaining, or tragically in childbirth. Just as women were denied the right and the capacity to a full life, they were denied the right and the capacity to a full death as well.

Robert C. Solomon

#5. Many Years before without the New Technologies Life was more Peaceful and Simpler.

Jan Jansen

#6. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Standing beside you,
I took an oath
to make your life simpler
by complicating mine
and what I always thought
would happen did:
I was lifted up in joy.

David Ignatow

#8. Logan had infiltrated enemy strongholds with less effort than he was expending to get this family tell him the complete truth ... Something was very wrong when war seemed so much simpler than his home life.

Cat Johnson

#9. Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Robert Orben

#10. She was simpler, less fractured by life during her youth.

Philip Zaleski

#11. Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.

Kiki Archer

#12. Emily thought maybe it was simpler than that: Some people gave money instead of love because it was all they had to give. A full bank account and a life of good deeds achieved with money didn't mean a full heart or a giving soul - often just the opposite.

Lisa Unger

#13. We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Freeman Thomas

#14. To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

Aziz Ansari

#15. I looked at you and knew what was missing in my life. What I wanted in my life. I've never stopped loving you, Ren. I can't make it any simpler than that.

Maya Banks

#16. This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.

Nelson Mandela

#17. Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.

Elizabeth Peters

#18. If we could choose who we love, our love lives would be much simpler. We could avoid heart ache and heart break. But is that what we want or what we need? As individuals we grow and learn by our mistakes, and some of the biggest mistakes in life revolve around the heart

Tatum Wells

#19. Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

John Sununu

#20. One must look at what is needed rather than what is wanted. This is the most critical point in making life easier and simpler - need versus want.

Glen Mizrahi

#21. We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

Ben Gibbard

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

Lawrence Durrell

#23. Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Pete Townshend