Quotes About Complicated Feelings

#1. What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.

Vivian Gornick

#2. Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#3. If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.

Maurissa Tancharoen

#4. I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

Matthew Specktor

#5. What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.

Marlon James

#6. And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

Edward Hirsch

#7. And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

Corrie Ten Boom

#8. What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older. You could tell the truth, be polite, take everyone's feelings into consideration and still have to deal with other people's shit. At nine or ninety.

Mark Haddon

#9. The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.

Vironika Tugaleva

#10. There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

Andre Gide

#11. I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Denzel Washington

#12. In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.

Ted Hughes

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

Kiki Archer

#14. Girl, I'd warn you that God Almighty's goin' to strike you dead, exceptin' I been warnin' your mama that for years, and he in his infinite mercy has so far seen fit to withhold his lightnin'.

Tom Robbins

#15. Today is felt to be the most complicated day in our lives and rarely in trying to deal with the issues of today, are we aware of the impact of the past on those issues.

Martha Char Love

#16. A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.

Etienne Davodeau

#17. I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings.

Mickey Sumner

#18. I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises, no worries and no feelings.

Maria V. Snyder

#19. Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

Antonio Damasio

#20. I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.

Osamu Dazai

#21. Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Sophocles

#22. I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.

L.M. Montgomery

#23. I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

Charis Wilson

#24. Not everyone has a shiny, perfect kind of love. Sometimes it's messy, complicated, and painful. It doesn't lessen the depth of the feelings involved though.

Sydney Landon

#25. I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

Edan Lepucki

#26. I'm happy to not know what I think about stuff; I'm happy to change my mind. But it's relatively recently that I've been able to apply that to feelings. I used to like to know what I felt. I didn't want those feelings to be complicated or muddled or clashing.

Marlon James

#27. It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

Marc Andreessen

#28. I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.

Nick Saban

#29. I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

Sara Zarr

#30. When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

Wallace Shawn

#31. I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

Don Baylor

#32. I Am ... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

Neil Diamond

#33. Other than the fact that I'm entirely sick of Mexican food, Abe might be in there. And he might accidentally-on-purpose drop a plate of enchiladas into Harlin's lap if we're together.

Suzanne Young