Life's A Mess Quotes

#1. You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

Marina And The Diamonds

#2. My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

Nick Diaz

#3. Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

#4. The best sex of my life has officially wiped me out, every muscle a relaxed mess of orgasmy uselessness. He breathes hard, staring at me, then wipes his mouth and hops off the bed, walking bare assed out of the room.

Alessandra Torre

#5. I'd found so much comfort in my precise, flawless formulas, and yet life wasn't precise or flawless. Life was a mess.

Gretchen McNeil

#6. If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

Muriel Spark

#7. There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live in the Southwest, a part of the country with more than its share of fair skies, material wealth, and people who are trying not to be as old as they are.

Martha Beck

#8. Sometimes you have to make a mess in order to clean up effectively.

Joy Marino

#9. In life we all go through trials and tribulations. So now tell me, will you pass or will you make a mess?

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#10. You will meet a lot of people in your life; some laugh with you, others will laugh at you; some will love to clean your mess, others will love to mess you up! Love all, but choose carefully the one who stays close to you forever!

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

Gabrielle Zevin

#12. I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.

Jillian Lauren

#14. Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess.

Tony Robbins

#15. Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight just a touch in the fire burning so bright no I don't wanna mess this thing up I don't wanna push too far just a shot in the dark that you just might be the one I've been waiting for my whole life but baby I'm alright with just a kiss goodnight

Lady Antebellum

#16. Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

Chris Hardwick

#17. Life is but a carousel of four seasons. Unpredictable for the most part. Happy. Unhappy. Content. Searching. Mess up the order, and they still rebound at one point or another.

Tarryn Fisher

#18. They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.

Kelly Macdonald

#19. The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.

Lisa Wingate

#20. I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess ...

Anupam Kher

#21. Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.

Harlan Coben

#22. A marriage is sensitive, fragile and crucial. Once you mess up with how you handle it, it will shatter

Diyar Harraz

#23. People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.

Ajahn Chah

#24. I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

Mindy McCready

#25. I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life ... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.

Stephen King

#26. The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

David Byrne

#27. I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. That way, I'll never get in a rut. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person; I figure that's the best time to start over.

Jody Gehrman

#28. It's a mess. But you know what? It's a beautiful mess that we can't and shouldn't try to avoid.

Danielle LaPorte

#29. And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that poor old uniparous whore and myself the last of my foul brood, neither man nor beast.

Samuel Beckett

#30. When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think.

Pascal Chaumeil

#31. I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#32. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.

Joseph Campbell

#33. What if I mess up?"
"Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me."
"What's that?"
"Stay alive long enough to mess up again.

Victoria Schwab

#34. Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.

Kevin James

#35. Love changes you, so they say; how romantic. But nobody ever says that love can change your life for the worse, can turn you from a beautiful, confident woman into a shaking, phone-throwing mess. They should put that on the Valentine's cards.

Erin Lawless

#36. Life is a thump-ripe melon ... it's so sweet and such a mess ...

Greg Brown

#37. Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

Gayle Forman

#38. And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not messing with just that part. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life.

Jay Asher

#39. I have squandered away my father's political legacy ... My personal life is in a mess ... Can I turn the tables? - Rhea Malviya

Tuhin A. Sinha

#40. There is a fascinating chaos to life; but there is always a message in the mess ... always.

Steve Maraboli

#41. Life's a quest - A long search for something we can't name; something we want and usually can't get. We don't know precisely what it is - all we know is that we don't get it. What a fellow needs is something in which he can lose himself when everything else is a mess.

Peter Ruber

#42. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life. Everything

Jay Asher

#43. I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

A.S. Byatt

#44. Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.

J.K. Rowling

#45. Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes ... and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

James Alan Gardner

#46. A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough ... and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

George R R Martin

#47. He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.

Grant Fuhr

#48. No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.

Richard Matheson

#49. My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

David Warner

#50. It looked like I'd sold my pottage for a mess of afterbirth, as the saying is. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped on.

Jim Thompson

#51. One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.

Jill Lepore

#52. Things end. Everything ends. But for a few days in a city full of hunger, and avarice, and alienation - in this fucked-up mess of a life spent wandering in the dark without a hand to hold on to - I was not alone. And neither were you.

Julio Alexi Genao

#53. But he could not help wondering, as he did, that if he was so damn wise, why was his life in such a mess?

Margaret Weis

#54. Trying to find answers to why and how my life got into such a dismal mess, I sought answers in the scriptures, in religion and philosophy, but it only confused me further. Stories, on the other hand, helped me cope, heal and recover.

Indu Muralidharan

#55. The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.

Kevin Nash

#56. Relax, Xander. It's only two lines."
He closed his eyes and leaned into her, his arms wrapping her back. "But it's still lines in a real film, and if I mess it up-"
"They'll have you do it again. And again... and again." Liv laughed. "No big deal. Life is full of second chances.

Danika Stone

#57. Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Charles Caleb Colton

#58. It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.

David Crowder

#59. I could see that others had confused her disorganized passion for volatility. In reality, she was a scrumptious mess; deliciously majestic. She was on her way to great things in this life.

Steve Maraboli

#60. I'm a beautiful mess of contradiction,
A chaotic display of imperfection.

Sai Marie Johnson

#61. One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

E. M. Forster

#62. I rank money higher than social life or meaning because once you have money, those other things are easier to get. For example, you won't have much of a social life if you can't afford to do anything. And you can't make money if your health is a mess.

Scott Adams

#63. Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

Geoffrey Elton

#64. Some people are drawn to trouble. Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up.

Harlan Coben

#65. You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life - just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.

Tarryn Fisher

#66. Whatever happens to me in life, I must believe that somewhere, In the mess or madness of it all, There is a sacred potential -

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#67. Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Athol Fugard

#68. Plastic gods are safe. Plastic gods don't mess with you. Plastic gods don't matter much; they fit in a small crevice of the life you want, the life you were planning to have. And when everything in life is working . . . plastic gods feel like enough.

Jennie Allen

#69. I know this - a man got to do what he got to do, I can't tell you. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in the worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella's life. He got to do it all hisself, Help im, maybe, but not tell him what to do.

John Steinbeck

#70. Life's a freaking mess ... there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess.

Jandy Nelson

#71. Oh, what a mess life was! Why had she been such an idiot as to marry Charles of all people and have her life end at sixteen?

Margaret Mitchell

#72. I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

Marc Almond

#73. Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

Alistair Begg

#74. I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.

Matt Cameron

#75. Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

Bill Cosby

#76. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in this worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella's life. He got to do it all hisself. Help him, maybe, but not tell him what to do.

John Steinbeck

#77. Just an observation: it is impossible to be both grateful and depressed. Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

Steve Maraboli

#78. My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

Juliana Hatfield

#79. Every single man hangs by a thread, a bottomless pit can open beneath him any minute, and yet he still goes on thinking up unpleasantnesses for himself and making a mess of his life.

Ivan Turgenev

#80. I like to compare my mental stress capacity to a dinner plate. Most people have moderate amounts of stress in their life, like a nice balanced meal. The food represents different stresses that occur in our lives, past and present.

L.K. Elliott

#81. One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants.
Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging.
Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary.
-Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

Lauren Myracle

#82. There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body's urges, the body's needs,
dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it's in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.

David Levithan

#83. Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

Tom Spanbauer

#84. I'm a teenager, and we mess up sometimes.

Jen Calonita

#85. This is a fantastic place to come back to in one's next life. Forget Nirvana, make a mess to come back.

Milika M.

#86. It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways, I now realized, not remembering had been a blessing. A brief respite in the twisted bloody mess that my life had become.
But at least I knew who I was.

Keri Arthur

#87. The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Jasper Fforde

#88. He really should have listened to his grandfather, because three weeks after he'd arrived, all hell had broken loose. Not with the project. The construction of phase one was on budget and on time. His professional life was in sync, but his personal life was a mess. All

Barbara Freethy

#89. Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

Charles W. Colson

#90. It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.

Terence Blacker

#91. To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

Dave Barry

#92. When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#93. There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

Wesley Morris

#94. It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.

Karrine Steffans

#95. The food in the hostel mess is worst of a kind. The grief in my words reach easily to those who have "been there and done that" Chapatti in the meal is either so uncooked or overly cooked and you can only expect dal in the ocean of water when you are ready to swim.

Parul Wadhwa

#96. Shea is a beast, Lucas, you know that. He is the Chuck Norris of baby-making and life; you don't mess with Shea,

Toni Aleo

#97. Life is a mess, there is trouble around every corner. But Jesus gives us peace and rest in the good and the bad times.

Michelle Lynn Brown

#98. Life is a goddam mess ... but you wouldn't want to miss it!

Joseph Mitchell

#99. If you fear you've written too many checks on God's kindness account, drag regrets around like a broken bumper, huff and puff more than you delight and rest, and, most of all, if you wonder whether God can do something with the mess of your life, then grace is what you need.

Max Lucado

#100. Life had jerked the carpet out from underneath us and left a shattered mess

John Corwin