Top 82 Quotes About Complexes
#1. Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.
Vladimir Nabokov
#2. All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
Lionel Richie
#3. Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone De Beauvoir
#4. I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.
Marjane Satrapi
#5. And then ...
It was like Fortnums was For Gorgeous People Only. They needed a sign so normal people wouldn't wander in unwittingly and develop immediate inferiority complexes.
Kristen Ashley
#6. All our anxieties relate to time ... The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.
Fulton J. Sheen
#7. Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.
Eriq La Salle
#8. In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.
Carl Jung
#9. My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
Henry Taube
#10. An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#11. Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
Carl Jung
#12. Every woman needs to appreciate her natural beauty, but she also needs to analyze the topic of complexes in general
Sunday Adelaja
#13. A child is not to blame for being immersed in a certain environment and handed down complexes
Sunday Adelaja
#14. It is necessary to analyze all the restricting beliefs and complexes, which we acquired in childhood, from family, school and society
Sunday Adelaja
#15. There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.
Anthony Kiedis
#16. When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
Nana Mouskouri
#17. When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes.
Giorgio Armani
#18. But for many people, a huge part of the energy goes into the struggle with complexes, fear, worries, anxiety, and the energy cannot be used to achieve goals and dreams
Sunday Adelaja
#20. The man in a free society must either blame himself (which leads to the melancholia of those plagued by inferiority complexes) or will be bound to accuse imaginary conspiraces of ill-wishers and downright enemies.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#21. I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#22. Tango is a truth drug. It lays bare your problems and your complexes, but also the strengths you hide from others so as not to vex them. It shows what a couple can be for each other, how they can listen to each other. People who only want to listen to themselves will hate tango.
Nina George
#23. Often, exactly big complexes force an individual to achieve their big goals and massive success.
Sahara Sanders
#24. On top of everything else," he said immediately, "we've got 'Wise Child' complexes. We've never really got off the goddam air. Not one of us. We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound. At least I do ... it's impossible for me to keep my mouth shut.
J.D. Salinger
#25. I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#26. The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.
P.G. Wodehouse
#27. A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
#28. You should have long since gotten rid of military-industrial complexes.
Arkady Strugatsky
#29. Complexes and negative beliefs remain in our sub consciousness for a life time
Sunday Adelaja
#30. Successful self-actualization can prevent inferiority complexes
Sunday Adelaja
#31. I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.
Taylor Momsen
#32. The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses - clear as day.
Sarah Parcak
#33. To get rid of complexes and consequently, to finding a more conscious and harmonious life is to see and understand where these distortions occurs in our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.
Frank Herbert
#35. I'd often mused that writers and doctors were similar people. We all had God complexes and liked control. The only thing that separated us was a lot of schooling and science classes. And the fact that the people whose lives I messed with weren't real.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#36. When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#37. The Metaphoton is a web of energy fields or complexes - having three hierarchical complexes called the light complex, mind complex and spirit complex.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#39. It is complexes that prevent women with a good appearance from adequately assessing themselves
Sunday Adelaja
#40. One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
Jean Tinguely
#41. Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.
Ernst Mach
#42. Complexes can be the feelings of guilt, a victim complex, and fear of failure, criticism, poverty, and loneliness, loss of love, success, insecurity, denial, and low self-esteem
Sunday Adelaja
#43. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
Helena Bonham Carter
#44. Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.
Carl Jung
#45. Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.
Roald Hoffmann
#46. Our subconscious mind stores all our negative beliefs, complexes and behavioral patterns
Sunday Adelaja
#47. Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#48. In order to change thinking into the positive way, we need to analyze what complexes we have received
Sunday Adelaja
#50. Negative beliefs and complexes are stored in your subconscious mind and create a weakness, which will not let you succeed in life
Sunday Adelaja
#51. Your gods are trivial constructs. Easy to dismiss. Animistic fantasies or mammalian wish complexes. You are lost children longing for papa, and casting his image into the sky.
Terry Pratchett
#52. Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and it can bring into the field of waking consciousness many drives, emotions and complexes which were creating difficulties in the unconscious.
Roberto Assagioli
#53. I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money.
Mary Renault
#54. Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.
Fred Brooks
#55. The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
James D. Watson
#56. Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.
Vladimir Nabokov
#57. An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
Charles Olson
#58. Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
Donella Meadows
#59. The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.
Stephen Jay Gould
#60. Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.
Nicole Krauss
#62. Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#63. I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex.
Thom Yorke
#64. The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
Vinton Cerf
#66. It's really complex to make something simple.
Jack Dorsey
#67. One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
Plotinus
#68. John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.
Cynthia Lennon
#69. Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.
Stephen King
#71. Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
Ben Stein
#72. It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#73. Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.
Masiela Lusha
#74. The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.
Robert Greenberg
#75. That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.
Raheel Farooq
#76. Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.
Arthur Guiterman
#77. My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.
Natalia Ginzburg
#78. Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.
John Stossel
