Quotes About Indecision

Des Abends nehme ich mir vor, den Sonnenaufgang zu genießen, und komme nicht aus dem Bette; am Tage hoffe ich, mich des Mondscheins zu erfreuen, und bleibe in meiner Stube. Ich weiß nicht recht, warum ich aufstehe, warum ich schlafen gehe. Der Sauerteig, der mein Leben in Bewegung setzte, fehlt; der Reiz, der mich in tiefen Nächten munter erhielt, ist hin, der mich des Morgens aus dem Schlafe weckte, ist weg.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

Back, suddenly, to uncertainty.

If I wanted so much to go-- if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that door, why didn't I just go?... What kept me frozen there in a despair composed equally of impotent rage and a strange reluctance to shatter some exquisite but invisible structure, neither the shape nor purpose of which was apparent to me? In a words, what the hell was going on?

Erica tem receio que tudo fique como está e tem receio que algo se possa vir a alterar. Luta violentamente para conseguir respirar, uma espécie de ataque de asma, e depois não sabe que fazer com tanto ar.

For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you were supposed to do.

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

He'd never called her. Wanted to. A hundred times. But every time he thought about it, his mind boiled up with every reason not to do it, every doubt he'd ever had about himself.

I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

El orden es una especie de impulso de repetición que establece de una vez para todas cuándo, dónde y cómo debe efectuarse determinado acto, de modo que en toda situación correspondiente nos ahorraremos las dudas e indecisiones

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

People froze you in place

the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.

I'm in a state of utter confusion, don't know what to read, what to write, what to do. I only know that I'm longing for something...

I have to. I've changed my mind so often." Neither of us spoke for a minute. "That's the worst reason to do something," I said.

And I am aware of her failings as well. She was impatient, she did not tolerate foolishness or indecision. Too often she did not listen to the views of others, and she was hasty in her judgment, but when she was wrong she apologized." His voice softened and he blinked rapidly. "She was a creature of high idealism

She had a certain pity for people who wavered, she entirely understood fear. . . .

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

She didn't even know if she liked them, in fact, and perhaps she didn't like them, but by now it hardly mattered because how would she ever start over with somebody new, at this point?

People want to be told what to do because they are afraid (petrified) of figuring it out for themselves.

I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not, as those that fear they hope, and know they fear.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.