Mess Quotes

“What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."
He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?"
"I love it." He says
"Why?"
"Because we match.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“My life before him was so simple and decided, now after him...It's just...After.”
― Anna Todd, After

“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Excuse the mess, but we live here.”
― Roseanne Barr

“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“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

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Well if that's the kind of pride you're talking about, you can bet your ass, I'm going to mess with it.”
― Tite Kubo

“I'm a mess right now I can't eat can't sleep
Bills are piling high ain't worked in three weeks
Ain't bathed can't shave cause my heart is so tender like living in a blender
I'm shaken and I'm stirred”
― Anthony Hamilton

“This moment
my mind is bereft of poetry, yet
I want to write
nothing but a poem.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“Others can't always define your true identity. They see what they 'want' to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it's good!”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.”
― Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

“These times are hard, but I won't walk away jaded, darker, different. I feel. I cry to heal. If you saw me in those moments, maybe you'd think I was a mess. But I don't call it a mess. I call it strength.

Real strength isn't about building walls. Real strength is about staying open, no matter what. It's about taking life—with all the pleasures that fade and all the pain that sticks around for too long—and not shutting down, not closing down, not building up those walls.

Resilience isn't hard, impenetrable, iron. Resilience is flexible, soft, warm.

Stay strong. The real kind of strong. Don't let your automatic mind reflexes make you jump away from pain and towards pleasure. Make choices. See clearly. And never, ever, stop feeling.

Don't go numb. The world, even with all its horror, is too beautiful to miss.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.”
― Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths

“Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.

“But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6)”
― Jay Rayner, Eating Crow: A Novel of Apology

“It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.”
― Douglas Adams

“I bet that guy was as obsessed with Sarah as I am with this other girl, and I bet he promised himself never to hurt her, just like I've been doin' - and look what he's done to her. He's left her a crumpled mess, lyin' on her bed all the time.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

“Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I think there’s something very healthy about keeping your own cave clean. It is a good barometer of how your life is going, the state of your home. If it’s a complete tip, you’re taking on too much or depressed; if someone else has to keep it clean for you, it’s too big or you’re too busy.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“A writer deserves a grand finale, a climax. Not this shit, not hovering in this purgatorial slowness, a fucked up astral projection experience peering down at the mess I've become.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“Happily everafter is a disney myth,
In real life there's only messy evernow.
Master the craft of surfing the mess,
World will bathe in your sapient glow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Creativity promises you a mess; making meaning of that mess is the whole world. Sometimes it’s all chaos, a collection of stains. Art is just an offering to the process.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“I'm letting myself unapologetically be a mess.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex

“Your job is to let me be a mess, keep me from deciding I'm not, urging me against getting my messiness over others.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex