Complicated Life Quotes

Each moment of time that passes in my life is very important.
Because it strengthens my spirit to succeed in the complicated life. ~ Raathi Devi

Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to. ~ Anna Brackett

Maybe that's what growing up was really all about. Adults always say how complicated life gets as we age, but really, I think we just look for bigger challenges to overcome. Our biggest fears stretch from sleeping without our beloved teddy bear to finding out that we have no purpose in life. Did time, maturity, and overcoming obstacles offer the kind of contentment so evident in Orvin? Or did we just simply give up and surrender to the life we were already living? ~ Renee Carlino

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~ John Von Neumann

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding. ~ Cheryl Strayed

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. ~ Dean Koontz

It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour. ~ Megan Abbott

I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated. ~ Donald Trump

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make. ~ James Patterson

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it ... ~ James A. Murphy

Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve. ~ Patricia Cornwell

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life. ~ Paul Watson

Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do. ~ Adrian Tan

And I realized how much more complicated life is without the benefit of magic. Rubbing linseed oil into my blistered hands, I thought wistfully of how magic lets you skip over the steps of things. That is what makes it so appealing.
But, I thought, the steps of things are where life is truly found, in doing the day-to-day tasks. ~ Edith Pattou

Life is as simple or complicated as we make it. ~ Donna Smallin

If we look at things as they are instead of giving them our own shape and colour, life will be less complicated ~ Santosh Joshi

Life is random. Life is complicated. Life is often unforgiving. And we must each live it anyway. And I don't mean live it as if it's a chore, something to be endured, survived. I mean, dig in, get muddy, howl at the moon, take pictures of sunsets, play in the rain, make love, savor your food, smile as much as you can. And cry when you're sad. Live it despite the fact it pisses you off. Live it and pay as much attention as you can muster ~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. ~ Robert Sheckley

Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to show how complicated it is as an individual, but also your relation between a complicated life and the complications you have inside you. ~ Henning Mankell

- I'm a normal kid, I was raised by television.

The secret to great barbeque: only Oscar knows it. Life should be so simple as enjoying ribs, farting, crapping, pissing, fucking and drinking, and maybe smoking too, but anything other than that is too complicated, life should be simple. It is not.

- Work? You would go to work even if there's a chance your job's imaginary?

Imaginary or not, the questions Max poses remain as relevant for Frank, Sam, and Oscar as they are for us.

A slight hangover won't be best friends with any kind of daylight and while this one wasn't particularly hazardous, they wouldn't be having any of it.

"...the lunatic is on the grass."

Surely if you see a bunch of people having a picnic in a park that would turn your head wouldn't it? How normal a picnic really is? When was the last time you saw one happening? Not in a movie, in real life.

If a man's hat falls to the ground, said man is expected to pick it up. That's the premise.

I'm not some pissy little kid who stopped believing in God because some priests rape kids. I don't believe in God because I can't be sure of its
existence.

I'm not some pissy little kid who stopped believing in God because the church raped kids. I don't believe in God because I can't be sure of its existence.

Nothing is wrong.

You don't take another man's hat, another man's ride, or another man's woman. ~ Santiago Rodriguez

People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo. Of course, there was no going back - time only moved forward - but people could change.

For worse.

And for better.

It wasn't easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt.

So make it worth the pain. ~ Victoria Schwab

I've always been pretty good at accepting the whole of someone, the good with the bad. I see it all, but try not to let it cloud my judgement. People are complicated. Life is complicated. ~ Kim Holden

How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe! ~ Robertson Davies

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. ~ Zadie Smith

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine ~ Lawrence Durrell

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated. ~ Scott Westerfeld

Perhaps there's no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it's a way of reducing a complicated life into a simple goal. All you have to do is take one step at a time, place one foot in front of the other, and refuse to turn back until you've given everything you have. ~ Ken Ilgunas

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. ~ David Lynch

A complicated life is an interesting life. ~ Suzanne Harper

My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is. ~ Michael Jackson

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

We're all human and life is complicated. ~ Mark Kozelek

Don't devote yourself to anyone.
Eventually, everyone walks out of your life

If you are so filled with love, there are many out there who are waiting for just one kind gesture, one kind word
Extend your hand and help the right ones.

Again, don't get involved!

Attachment only leads to emotional exhaustion. This world is a simple place. Get busy exploring its simplicity. Get busy exploring its beauty. People are complicated. Life is too short to get involved in their complications. ~ Shreya Naik

Life has no smooth road for any of us, we just have to keep looking upward ~ Alfusainey Jallow

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated. ~ Lee Daniels

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated. ~ Terry Pratchett

The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle. ~ Peter Hargreaves

Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Escape from complicated life! Take refuge in simple life! You will find three treasures there: Healthy body, peaceful mind and a life away from ambitious fools! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

...Lina longed suddenly for a sliver of that must have been her mother's allure, and talent, and passion, and willingness to embrace her own complicated life. ~ Tara Conklin

Your life may seem mundane and ordinary to you, but there are many people out there who would love to have a less complicated life. ~ Lindy Tsang

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

Life is not that complicated. ~ George Carlin

She kept me from living in back alleys and going back to drugs. I paid her back, but I owed her a lot more than the money. Emily saved my life." Buck Jamison in Goodbye Emily ~ Michael Murphy

When we are bitter about unfulfilled dreams, harboring a grudge about not getting the life we wanted or even deserved, aren't we letting venom move through our system? ~ Whitney Johnson

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life. ~ Rebecca West

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality. ~ Bryan White

Boneless with relief, she let him pull her forward, into the open air, into his lap. And in this wild darkness, in the middle of an empty earth, she grieved for both of them - indeed, for every human in this wretched world, who must face the trials life offered, negotiate the changes wrought by time. There was so little joy to cling to, so few certainties. Yet humans continued to endure. Continued to hope. The undeniable compulsion to survive powered them onward, like Sisyphus on his mountain. ~ Meredith Duran

the thing is, life is nothing like the movies...Somewhere between the two of us, something broke and we couldn't fix it. We tried. we only ended up hurting each other more ~ Vince O. Teves

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds. ~ Dick Cavett

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. ~ Jackson Browne

As a twenty-one-year-old college student, Daisy Richmond's answer to the question "If you knew you were going to die in one month, what would you do?" was full of adventure and travel to exotic lands. As a twenty-seven-year-old woman who is faced with a recurrence of breast cancer, her answer is very different. Before I Go is the poignant story of Daisy's journey to navigate the unexpected twists and turns of life, and the painful process of letting go of everything but love. ~ Colleen Oakley

Do you know what the Spirit-filled life is? It is living every moment as though you are standing in the presence of Jesus Christ! ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield. ~ Watchman Nee

Stop asking that," she said angrily. There was no stopping the tears now. "You always ask that. Why. Like there's an answer for everything. Not everybody has your life, you know, or your family. In your life, things happen for reasons. People make sense. But that's not my life. Nobody in my life makes sense ... ~ Rainbow Rowell

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor. ~ Oscar Wilde

Minds don't rest; they reel and wander and fixate and roll back and reconsider because it's like this, having a mind. Hearts don't idle; they swell and constrict and break and forgive and behold because it's like this, having a heart. Lives don't last; they thrill and confound and circle and overflow and disappear because it's like this, having a life. ~ Kelly Corrigan

I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad. ~ Kola Boof

When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world. ~ Gillian Duce

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. ~ Henri Bergson

I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant. ~ Christine Feehan

People who say you can't do something should be ignored. They're probably talking to themselves. ~ Eliza Green

I love women. I love their hearts. There are a lot of women who are suffering. A lot of women who have been disappointed, have been let down. One thing I'd like women to know is the message: Hold on. Hold on. Be faithful to your kids. Hold on for the future because life doesn't always necessarily stay the way that it is. It will get better. ~ Michele Bachmann

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. ~ Harold E. Varmus

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally. ~ Dallas Willard

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life. ~ Luis Bunuel

Reading a book is one mind playing with another. ~ A. J. Gallant

I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while. ~ Grace Gummer

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end. ~ Marcelene Cox

That's a dead flower she'd holding. How's it gonna look cute?" Flash glanced back again and shook his head. "Man, it's beyond dead. I've got Legos with more life than that plant."
"That's why everyone calls Emily Black Thumb, because she somehow kills every plant she gets. ~ Vonnie Davis

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view,
his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world. ~ Bronislaw Malinowski

We are one knot in a great web of being, building out of the vast past and (with luck) continuing billions of years into the future, until the sun dies, the last of its energy reaches Earth, and our local light goes out. The most appropriate response to the world is to realize, with awe, the ferocious mystery of being alive in it. And act accordingly. The worst thing anyone should be able to say about their life is also the greatest thing anyone can say: 'I tried my best. ~ Carl Safina

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again. ~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Life is short, Laugh. Live ~ Hlovate

And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

The First wealth is health. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Abby, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, he said as he stared out the bay window onto the lake. The serene morning calm of the water was laughing at his riptide of emotions. In all his life, he'd never been as tortured as he was now. Rip his limbs apart, whip his back raw, waterboard him, anything but this. Because this ... this was far worse. It was her pain. Her torture that was destroying his sanity. He had no control over it. He couldn't stop it.
He hated that he wasn't strong enough to withstand this. Most of all, he hated that he cared so much about her.
Cause he knew.
He knew one certainty in all this.
She had managed to touch a piece of his ice-cold heart. And it wasn't letting him go. ~ Cindy Paterson

Passion can't sustain itself
forever. ~ Haruki Murakami

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom. ~ Jean Paul Gaultier

The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers ~ Roberto Arlt

I don't believe the idea of Fate is that everything in our lives is predetermined. For me, it's those moments when, on reflection, Life seems to have intervened and given us a friendly or not-so-friendly nudge in another direction. ~ Thea Euryphaessa