Top 70 Quotes About Complicated Things In Life
#1. That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.
Kathryn Stockett
#2. I dig the toe of my shoe into the dirt. "It's complicated."
"Is it? Most complicated things in life are actually pretty simple at the core. We put so much extra nonsense in the middle that we can't even see how easy it really is.
Emery Lord
#3. Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.
Ken Burns
#4. Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.
Jasmine Warga
#5. Life is a contradiction. Minimalism and in its simplicity opens the door to complicated analysis not just to dust free spaces.
Rohan Chalmers
#6. Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.
Conn Iggulden
#7. I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted, complicated presence in someone's life, the familiar body, the source of another's existence. But I knew what I wanted was not always what I needed.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#8. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss
#9. learned that life is as simple or as complicated as you make it. I had chosen to simplify my life to include only the best things: my family, friends, and the mountains.
Jeff Alt
#10. Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full.
Kasie West
#11. Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#12. The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
Margaret Atwood
#13. I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.
Alastair Humphreys
#15. 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
#16. I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell
#17. Life is simple, it has always been. What is complex is our brain, and that's the main reason why we perceive life as being complicated. Embrace life for what you have and embrace life for who you are, as what you have others might envy and who you are might be secretly being admired by millions.
Jeekeshen Chinnappen
#18. The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it ...
James A. Murphy
#19. Some things in life are just to complicated to explain in any language.'
Olga was absolutely right, Tsukuru thought as he sipped his wine. Not just to explain to others, but to explain to yourself. Force yourself to try to explain it, and you create lies.
Haruki Murakami
#20. Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.
Laura Linney
#21. Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
Haruki Murakami
#22. There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.
Raymond E. Feist
#23. The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you.
Lois Duncan
#24. One day he will be in my place and what he will learn then is that trying and holding on are complicated and challenging things, but the most difficult thing in life is to love fiercely and then let go.
Twinkle Khanna
#25. I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.
Joel Osteen
#26. I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?
Richard Madden
#27. I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am.
Marwa Ayad
#28. Men she thought, could make a clean break with a woman, could leave in the way Parveen's husband had. Or could even be left, like George and determine to make a life another way. It was women who longed to retain ties and connections, to mix things up in complicated ways.
Nell Freudenberger
#29. Love to love, connection to connection, you carve your complicated path through life; leave one love behind, and the next one always seems out of reach. What can buoy you up in the meantime. What can underlie love, but love.
Michael Davidow
#30. You see? This is why you don't get mixed up in people's lives. Because the living are messy and complicated, and things end up going to hell one way or another, every time.
Megan Crewe
#31. Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.
Haruki Murakami
#32. I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.
Dean Karnazes
#33. One of the most important things I've learned in life is that complicated isn't always bad. Sometimes complicated is just complex.
S.L. Scott
#34. Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.
Nina Bawden
#35. Things can be very complicated; make them simple in your mind and they will be simple in real life as well!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
Lee Daniels
#37. Fuck," she said, after a minute. "And I thought I liked to make my life complicated." She
Jojo Moyes
#38. Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the Internet comes with a lot of focus on your "personal brand."
Marie Calloway
#39. Love is not enough. Life and marriage is so much more complicated than this
Barbara Bartlein
#40. Maybe that's all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn't. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.
Lisa Unger
#41. I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler ... complicated, that is.
M.K. Alexander
#42. Somehow, my whole existence had become a really complicated word problem.
I'd always sucked at those.
Rachel Hawkins
#43. I'm just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. 'Cause life ain't that complicated. It's only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it's meant to happen, it will happen.
Nayvadius Cash
#44. IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
A. N. Wilson
#46. How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
Sonya Hartnett
#47. When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it
Bruno Mars
#48. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.
Auliq Ice
#50. I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated.
Jessica Sorensen
#51. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges
#52. In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.
Elena Ferrante
#53. To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
Anne Lamott
#54. A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.
John Irving
#55. My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#56. The most complicated and scary things in life are really about something a lot more simple.
Lara Zielin
#57. Life isn't complicated.
We are.
Manoj Vaz
#58. I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
Dorothy Allison
#59. Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up.
Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#60. Life was complicated enough without borrowing trouble.
Raine Miller
#61. Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.
Rebecca Stead
#62. I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#63. Later, he was to decide that Andrew's life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.
Neal Stephenson
#64. It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.
Woody Allen
#65. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.
Rick Van Ness
#66. 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
#67. It is not the grown man- the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated offspring- you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.
Jojo Moyes
#68. Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Lawrence Durrell
#69. Eloise knew that it was so much more complicated than that. There are no trades in this life, and depression is a dark, dark doorway some people have no choice but to walk through.
Lisa Unger
#70. Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.
Jim Rohn
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