Quotes About Messy People

#1. Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

Barbara Delinsky

#2. Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It's messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.

Rands

#3. I'd say I'm pretty messy. NOT dirty though - there's a difference. Messy people leave clothes on their bedroom floor ... dirty people leave pizza boxes.

Nikki Ferrell

#4. Every sapient species has a long, messy history of powers that rise and fall. The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads.

Becky Chambers

#5. One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny.

Melissa Pritchard

#6. Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

Kathleen Parker

#7. No people. You get close to them, and they die or disappear. You kiss them, just for fun, and they tie you to the bed and steal your creds. They're messy. Stupid. Foolish.

Delilah S. Dawson

#8. When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!

Bob Goff

#9. Relationships aren't neat and clean. They're ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#10. Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.

Lynn Shelton

#11. I want them [people] to feel open and comfortable to share the messy, dirty, shameful parts of themselves. Those are the parts I wanna see. And that eating disorders aren't just about "being thin."

Jessie Kahnweiler

#12. I've seen people die. Die hard. Die messy. Job like mine, you live with the reaper every day. But if you're unlucky, it's not the bullets that kill you in this gig. It's moment like these. Killing you one piece at a time.

Amie Kaufman

#13. My life will not follow a fairy tale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated. And messy.

Kim Holden

#14. 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

#15. Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?' She said, 'Well, Dad, they're round and they're messy. But that's what makes them fun. Once we get older we're not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you're eating a Valomilk, it's okay to be messy again.

Steve Almond

#16. This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.

Alexei Panshin

#17. Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy ... the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. What was it about needy girls? Jules wondered. They felt like they had the right to be needy, because they knew that other people would be interested in - although annoyed at - their needs. ... They got all the attention. Boys turned their focus toward them, and messy situations results.

Meg Wolitzer

#19. It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make - and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.

Craig Johnson

#20. People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

Dean Kamen

#21. The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in which the government played a significant role. That role was, however, far more subtle than the plans of industrial policy gurus or techno-boosting politicians.

Virginia Postrel

#22. I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

Chris Ware

#23. Opinions are like sphincters in that most people have them, just some are louder than others and can be terribly messy if not handled correctly.

T.J. Klune

#24. In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

Frank Bruni

#25. People who don't know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don't know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

Young-Ha Kim

#26. By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of science, and the perfection of its truths - Humanity could be rather messy in comparison.

Brenda Maddox

#27. I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

Charlize Theron

#28. Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
That isn't fair.
Bad things should happen to bad people.
And they will. They will.

Amy Zhang

#29. Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

Eve Ensler

#30. You see that? That big messy spiral of people, moving, trying to find God? I ask them, as the exodus unfolds once again on screen.
That right there is Zion. Get there however you can.

Joanna Brooks

#31. I mean "God" as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.

Anne Lamott

#32. You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people.

Anne Lamott

#33. How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?

Liane Moriarty

#34. He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.

Claire Legrand

#35. People are messy, unpredictable things.

Mary Roach

#36. [Incomplete people] are complicated and sensitive and messy in their reactions

Lysa TerKeurst

#37. While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

Quentin Crisp

#38. I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.

Simon McBurney

#39. Valentine's Day is a disaster. Any day that is designed to perfectly encapsulate something as messy and personal as two people in a romantic relationship would have to be. But in Night Vale it also kills people. This is called satire.

Joseph Fink

#40. Real people are messy and complicated and generally inconvenient, but at least they are there,

Cody McFadyen

#41. Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.

Michelle Obama

#42. A lot of blood,
A lot of dead people,
A lot of victims,
A lot of useless battles,
A lot of predictable battles, so far what's next?

As far as now I suggest to change the road, it's too messy this road in which all are walking. Somebody will fall...

Deyth Banger

#43. The act of recording requires you to look at and handle and touch things, so yes - art is more than just looking and recording. It's messy and time consuming and people might fall in love and get hurt.

Laurel Nakadate

#44. The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

David Lynch

#45. The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day ...

C. JoyBell C.

#46. Those who broadcast your messy failures are the same people who will telecast your mass fortunes. But this can only happen when you accept your responsibility to turn your life around!

Israelmore Ayivor

#47. Real life is messy because it is going somewhere. Things constantly need to be done because people are constantly growing.

Rachel Jankovic

#48. I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

Hattie Morahan

#49. Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

Benjamin Hoff

#50. People truly engaged in life have messy houses.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#51. People don't break up because someone's family is a little ... messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

Laura Dave

#52. I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

Carrie Underwood

#53. People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

Elizabeth Moon

#54. I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

Robert Downey Jr.

#55. Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

Danielle Steel

#56. Social work is all about leaning into the discomfort of ambiguity and uncertainty, and holding open an empathic space so people can find their own way. In a word - messy.

Brene Brown

#57. In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

#58. The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black

#59. Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Hugh Mackay

#60. I think the overriding message would be that love is serious business. True, down-to-the-crap love is not for the shallow or faint of heart. People are messy. Marriage is messy. You have to bring your best self to the game despite your limitations.

Ka Hancock

#61. I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.

Jenny Slate

#62. Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara)
You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#63. People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

Timothy Keller

#64. Of course you're right. It's just a hell of a time to be alive, is all - just this goddamn messy business of people having to get used to new ideas. And people just don't, that's all. I wish this were a hundred years from now, with everybody used to the change.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#65. He ground his teeth and slapped some slop down into a pile. The stench was beyond overwhelming. "I thought you said pigs are clean."
"Cleaner than people usually think, but not as clean as you and I." She looked at his messy boots, amusement dancing in her gray eyes. "Well, usually.

Julia Quinn

#66. most grounded people I have ever met. "There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and

Walter Isaacson

#67. In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.

Joanna Lumley

#68. I was particularly messy and disorganized when I had radiation sickness. Radiation exposures are also known for their ability to turn some people into geniuses.

Steven Magee

#69. And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything, especially me.

Erin McKean