Quotes About Indecision

I wanted to know, and I didn't want to know. I was all hung up in limbo.

But I was too many things, and wanted too many things, and could never decide which ones might (if I would pay them the proper attention) be most important.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

een drang die me op zulke momenten overvalt, maar waarvoor ik nooit bezwijk. De gedachte eraan bevredigt me. Ik ben een futloze avonturier, een krachteloze romanticus, een besluiteloze lafaard, een schijterige deserteur. Ik hou alleen van een valse start.

L'homme est un animal insatisfait qui hésite entre plusieurs frustrations.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

No no no no yes yes yes no maybe

This sick strange darkness comes creeping on so haunting everytime And as I stared I counted the webs from all the spiders catching things and eating their insides Like indecision to call you And hear your voice of treason Will you come home and stop this pain tonight stop this pain tonight

Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket. I did likewise with no qualms.

Probably. Again with the probablys. A world full of probablys, she said.

But knowing what I don't want to do doesn't help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image.

I didn't have the vaguest idea of what to do – I couldn't keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself. But even that admonition didn't work. A faculty advisor reviewing a graduation thesis would have had the perfect comment: you write well, you argue clearly, but you don't have anything to say.

I would begin to think that I wanted to do something, but then I would become incapable of distinguishing between the probable results of doing it and of not doing it. I often get the feeling that things around me have lost their proper balance, though it could be that my perceptions are playing tricks on me.

Tell me," said Sumire, "have you ever felt confused about what you're doing, like it's not right?" "I spend more time being confused than not," I answered.

I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image. - Toru

I'm caught between one void and another. I have no idea what's right, what's wrong. I don't even know what I want any more.

Realise, as the long hot days freakishly repeat themselves, one after the other, that whatever I am doing I really think I ought to be doing something else.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.

Oh, God. I can't do this. I only slightly want to have a baby. I think. I actually don't know at all.

I was tempted to run in the opposite direction rather than follow her anywhere.

It is among the more pointless of my habits: wondering what I ought to do when there is no doubt about what I am going to do.

He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was