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Quotes About Complication

Love is complicated. Love is passionate. Love is crazy. Love is thinking of someone and your heart begins to race and your palms get sweaty.
~ Unknown
Sometimes people decide to be just friends even their feeling is mutual. Not because love is hard but commitment complicates everything.
~ Unknown
His characters may be cardboard, but each has a clear, uncomplicated purpose. Every moment of the story contributes to building conflict.
~ Donald Maass
The problem is the hook. If a story doesn't have a problem, the story never gets started.
~ Donald Miller
the protagonist-complication-resolution model for story. You see it in various forms. Philip Gerard, who writes both novels and book-length narrative nonfiction, says a story follows when "a character we care about acts to fulfill his desires with important consequences.
~ Unknown
Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
She'd been prepared for him to say he was too old, she must put away that sweet but impractical idea, they would forget all about it and go back to being good friends. She had almost hoped he would say that; it would forestall the complication and entanglement, yet leave her with a grief to harbor, sad but tender, grief like a secret, soothing companion. But this! There was nothing soothing about this.
~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz
And we'd both agree this isn't how it should be. This life between two gardens is confusing and complicated. Dust is messy. We don't even like to touch dust, especially if it's made up of the shattered pieces of our own hearts.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Hello, Jenny," he said. She was very pretty and young and Theo was in love. He would marry Jenny tomorrow if he could, but his age and her husband complicated things. Plus, she was pregnant, and this bothered Theo, though he mentioned it to no one.
~ John Grisham
This gets complicated, because I know that not all ghosts are dead. In certain cases, you can be a ghost and still be half-alive—only a significant part of you has died. I wonder how many of these half-alive ghosts are aware of what has died in them, and—dead or alive—if there are rules for ghosts.
~ John Irving
Life is not so simple yet not so complicated. If we have positive attitude towards it then life is not so difficult life is beautiful live it without any regret.
~ Unknown
Remember one thing in life that worrying unnecessarly will only make your life more complicated and bitter.
~ Unknown
I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed. I
~ Marc Maron
I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed.
~ Marc Maron
É, de resto, uma das coisas mais terríveis para o apaixonado que, sendo os fatos particulares - que só a experiência, a espionagem, entre tantas realizações possíveis, dariam a conhecer - tão difíceis de descobrir, a verdade, em compensação, seja tão fácil de conhecer ou, em todo caso, de pressentir.
~ Marcel Proust
And then, abruptly, the memory of his dead wife returned to him, and probably thinking it too complicated to inquire into how, at such a time, he could have allowed himself to be carried away by an impulse of happiness, he confined himself to a gesture which he habitually employed whenever any perplexing question came into his mind: that is, he passed his hand across his forehead, dried his eyes, and wiped his glasses. And he
~ Marcel Proust
When our food and clothing and housing all born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea of God.
~ John Steinbeck
The great drive of our people stems from insecurity. It is often considered that the violent interest in little games, the mental rat-mazes of contract bridge, and the purposeful strinking of little white balls with sticks, comes from an inner sterility. But more likely it comes from an inner complication. Boredom arises not so often from too little to think about, as from too much.
~ John Steinbeck
Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.
~ Luanne Rice
The simplest thing in this world is our life, and most complicated thing is the way we live it,
~ Unknown
High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.
~ Vanna Bonta
Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.
~ Unknown
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
~ Douglas Adams
Sounds like someone's found a turd floating in the punch bowl, and I'm supposed to fish it out." Trouble followed me everywhere.
~ Unknown