Why Is Life So Complicated Quotes

#1. Why is life so complicated ... ?' I asked.
'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#2. Life was complicated enough without borrowing trouble.

Raine Miller

#3. Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Lawrence Durrell

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

Rebecca Stead

#11. 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

#12. Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up.
Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#13. 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

#14. Life isn't complicated.
We are.

Manoj Vaz

#15. The most complicated and scary things in life are really about something a lot more simple.

Lara Zielin

#16. 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

#17. Let go. Let go of all the stress and drama in your life. It's not worth it, and your body is far too important - too precious - to be bothered by a simple psych-out. You will figure it all out eventually, so why make life more complicated?

Matthew Moy

#18. Why do so many people need help?! Life is not that complicated. You get up, you go to work, eat three meals, you take one good shit and you go back to bed. What's the fucking mystery?!

George Carlin

#19. I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

Paul Auster

#20. We're all human and life is complicated.

Mark Kozelek

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated.

Jessica Sorensen

#25. LIFE is simply COMPLICATED.

Shaikh Mustafa

#26. 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

#27. When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

Bruno Mars

#28. Fuck," she said, after a minute. "And I thought I liked to make my life complicated." She

Jojo Moyes

#29. Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

Jim Rohn

#30. IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

A. N. Wilson

#31. 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

#32. Somehow, my whole existence had become a really complicated word problem.
I'd always sucked at those.

Rachel Hawkins

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Love is not enough. Life and marriage is so much more complicated than this

Barbara Bartlein

#36. 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