Top 1200 Complicated Relationship Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
People who choose to cut their parents out completely are super brave, but it's complicated and for me, I'd rather give the relationship a little bit of a try, however imperfect it is.
Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'
I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time. — © Cole Sprouse
I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
It's a very complicated relationship that I have with America. I love it so much. And I also see the places where it's flawed.
I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?
Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.
I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.
I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived. — © Vicky Krieps
I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.
The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.
It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.
Yeah, you always have to be there and remind people of you. It's complicated when you do music, or when you do anything in general. You need time. I don't know if it's because of the weather or what, but [Canadians] seem to have a relationship to time that I like very much.
Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy.
Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.
I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.
Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
Everyone is complicated, but when you're famous, you have to be pigeon-holed. By doing different stuff, that's rubbed up in complicated ways against the culture.
I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.
My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.
I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.
My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.
Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.
I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.
My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.
All women have a complicated relationship to beauty, but as a transgender woman it's a bit more complicated. There's a lot of pressure to appear feminine. When I was younger, I was most insecure about my size, my angular features, my feet, my hands . At the end of the day, it's about being comfortable in your own skin, and being able to walk down the street and not have people question your gender - and, for me, being perceived as a woman.
I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.
I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
Hate is a strong word. I don't really try to hate anything. Yeah, you could say I have a complicated, domestic relationship with America for sure.
I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way. — © K. Flay
I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I would be disingenuous to pretend that I don't pass as white.
There's always a time in a relationship when you can pull back. Three years ago when I realized I was falling for a guy with a complicated medical history, I decided not to exit. Believe me, I made the right decision.
Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.
We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.
My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.
We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies.
The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.
I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.
Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.
You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves. — © Toni Onley
You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.
The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.
Jose Mourinho was a difficult coach for me, and we had a respectful but complicated relationship. When I thought he would give me a chance, I couldn't prove to him that I was in good shape.
Money ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.
I have a very complicated relationship with my skin. It is sensitive, I think, to just changes in water, particularly because I travel so much.
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.
Puerto Rico is complicated. The people are complicated. The history is complicated. The story of the United States' relationship to Puerto Rico is complicated.
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated.
But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.
Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.
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