Complications Quotes

“Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.”
― Barbara Delinsky, The Secret Between Us

“Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.”
― Nora Roberts

“History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence.”
― Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

“Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."

("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.")

[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]”
― George Sand, Correspondance

“I told them he hit on me and that I was showing him my wrestling moves. I think they maybe believed it." I pull on my seat belt and roll down the window even though it's cold. I need to be able to smell for pixies. "We can't leave until everyone's out. I want to be sure nothing happens." "Did they really believe you Devyn asks.
My breath whooshes out with the reality of it and I adjust my previous statement. "I don't think so."
"Well there's another lovely complication." Devyn groans.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“There is nothing as complicated as the truth”
― Daniel Kemp, Why A Complicated Love

“There were complications, there were questions; but they were so much more together than they were anything else.”
― Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

“You know, you never know who will complicate you in a meaningful way.”
― Hua Hsu

“But the truth is that no one is innocent in love, and nobody forced me to love Kelly J. I don’t want to stop just because she laughs at me. I want to stay in love with her until she realizes I am a person. It is a complicated thing that a little kid, or even a fifth grader, can’t understand, that we are always choosing situations that hurt us.

We choose them so deeply that we don’t know we chose them. We think we had to. We think the world did it to us.

And then we think, what a horrible world that makes a weapon out of love. That stabs you with it, even when you can't defend yourself and the other person hates you and wants to see you cry.

It's a miracle that anyone would ever fall in love with someone else and--of all the people in the world--that person loves them back. Like if you fell off a building and landed in a pillow truck, somehow.

It doesn't happen, basically.

Which means we end up with someone and there's a lot of choosing to do. Choosing to forgive strange smells or choosing that Gadzooks is not the only place that boyfriends can shop.

This is the work of love.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“But somehow her satisfaction never lasted very long. She always found herself changing, pushing against the limits and ruining things for everyone around her.

"It's not always my fault," she said softly. "Things just get complicated, sometimes.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“I think I meant an intimation of sadness, a first recognition that there was so much to understand that one might never find one's way and the first signs, perhaps, that for a nature like mine, the way would not be easy. I cannot be sure that I felt all that then, although I can be sure that it was in the fig tree, a few years later, that I was first puzzled by the conflict which would haunt me, harm me, and benefit me the rest of my life: simply, the stubborn, relentless, driving desire to be alone as it came into conflict with the desire not to be alone when I wanted not to be.”
― Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

“We think that we can fix our lives by taking some simple step, but it's not like that. Most problems need lots of sticking plasters. They need coaxing and massaging and looking at from all sorts of different angles.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Quiet Side of Passion

“The long term health complications from COVID-19 are remarkably similar to what is being seen in long term high altitude workers.”
― Steven Magee

“Ah," he said. "I didn't say it wasn't complicated. Everything is complicated. The older you get, the more complicated life gets. It's one of those joyful things we have to look forward to, I guess.”
― Lauren Groff, The Monsters of Templeton

“Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more. History should be a hammock for swinging and a game for playing, the way cats play. Claw it, chew it, rearrange it and at bedtime it's still a ball of string full of knots. Nobody should mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“There are a lot of complications in life that we have no control over which we leave to God, so why do we complicate the things that we have control over and it is much simpler than we think?”
― Islam Bakli, كل شيء بقدر

“Get out of your own way. Don't be the one to complicate your own life.”
― Akiroq Brost

“I was going to make it simple, but complications felt good.”
― Nitya Prakash

“The initial signs of Magee’s Delayed Altitude Complications were a panic disorder followed a few years later with fatigue, confusion and forgetfulness.”
― Steven Magee

“Delayed complications from adverse environmental exposures is well known to the medical profession. It is documented for radiation, explosions, heavy metals, poisoning, electric shocks, head injuries, drugs, and we now appear to be adding high altitudes to the list.”
― Steven Magee

“I am aware of at least 4 professional astronomy workers that suffered health crashes approximately 14 years after their first exposure to the 13,797’ very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea. It killed two of them and the third almost died. I call this process ‘Magee’s Delayed Altitude Complications’.”
― Steven Magee

“I call Magee’s Delayed Altitude Complications ‘The Curse of Mauna Kea’.”
― Steven Magee

“Learning to coexist with delayed altitude complications is the life sentence handed to me by professional astronomers.”
― Steven Magee

“I will be spending the rest of my life learning how to coexist with delayed radiation complications.”
― Steven Magee

“The hardest part of breakup comes once the person is completely gone. Breakups are not just hard to do, but it’s hard to handle the emotional complications later on when we are in the vulnerable state and struggling all alone.

From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“You are the author of your own complications, and you can be the author of your own simplicity.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“Focus on something specific they said and ask more about it. Read through the other person's texts and pick out words that seem important. Then, ask them to elaborate on that. This will show them you're listening, and it can also help them sort through their complicated feelings.”
― Asa Don Brown

“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

“The closer you get to history, it's like the closer you get to the weave of a rug. You see a thousand thousand complications.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue