Complicated Quotes

“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes, yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.”
― Victoria Erickson

“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Night in Lisbon

“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using
their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated.”
― Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me

“Recently abandoned women can be complicated.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.”
― E.B. White

“So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple? Why can’t it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can’t live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?”
― Bella Andre, Come A Little Bit Closer

“grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Bend in the Road

“I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Men are always complaining about how difficult it is to understand women but I think it is the other way round. Men clan up and do not express what they feel. Then they suddenly stop all communication with you and vanish. All you can do is wait. I wish men came with instruction manual.”
― Preeti Shenoy, The One You Cannot Have

“The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

“Nothing in this world is complicated, only misunderstood.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.”
― Poul Anderson, Call Me Joe

“She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

“Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Canada as the place where the weather comes from.”
― Margaret Atwood

“When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.”
― Anna Sofia Botkin, It’s (Not That) Complicated: How to Relate to Guys in a Healthy, Sane, and Biblical Way

“So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didnt make any sence if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. Thats where the sadness came in.”
― Lauren Myracle

“Ah—that’s the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do.”
― Caroline Graham, Written In Blood

“It’s been twenty years. I don’t trust anyone anymore.”
“There’s no way for me to turn back.”
“The people in the sky with come to take me away. I want to go up into the sky.”
I’ll never turn back.”
― Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben, Vol. 1

“Complicated can be good. It means you’re not settling for simple when you deserve extraordinary.”
― Sabrina Cassidy, A Gargoyle Gripe

“It’s not retail therapy; it’s coping with a job you secretly can’t stand.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings

“I see into minds, you see', the robot continued, 'and you have no idea how complicated they are. I can’t begin to understand everything because my own mind has so little in common with them — but I try, and your novels help.”
― Isaac Asimov, Liar!

“We were complicated because we fit perfectly. Our stories aligned and grooves matched flawlessly. We shaded another with the loveliest night and lit each other with innocence. It was right. Everything was right.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“These are deep waters. Politics and madness.”
― C.J. Sansom, Revelation