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Quotes About Indecision

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
~ Sylvia Plath
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
~ Sylvia Plath
saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
~ Sylvia Plath
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
~ Sylvia Plath
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. [...] I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet
~ Sylvia Plath
And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.
~ T.S. Eliot
And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And a hundred visions and revisions
~ T.S. Eliot
I don't know what to do,' he said at last. 'I don't know what will happen.' 'If you did, you would only be making a selection, not a choice.
~ Tad Williams
Del sí al no, ¿cuántos quizá?
~ Julio Cortazar
Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.
~ Junot Diaz
And then there was Jacob, who stepped closer to me and then waited, letting me decide whether I would take the next step. Balanced there in indecision, it was as if the Twisted Sisters were before me, shaking their pom-poms, asking: But what is fair about staying with a guy who is ashamed to be seen with you? What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than mutual respect.
~ Justina Chen Headley
I don't know what to think. Jack or Grayson? Grayson or Jack?", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.
~ Kamila Shamsie
Because it's all about fear - fear of being alone, fear of never being asked and, worst of all, the fear of having a choice and making the wrong one.
~ Frank Schätzing
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
~ French proverb
Because they don't want to make choices anymore, he thought. Choices can be hard.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.
~ Brendan Francis
In prayer Jesus slows us down, teaches us to count how few days we have, and gifts us with wisdom. He reveals to us that we are so caught up in what is urgent that we have overlooked what is essential. He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.
~ Brennan Manning
We cannot will ourselves to accept grace. There are no magic words, preset formulas, or esoteric rites of passage. Only Jesus Christ sets us free from indecision. The Scriptures offer no other basis for conversion than the personal magnetism of the Master.
~ Brennan Manning
He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.
~ Brennan Manning
I don't know, upon my honour, what I'm doing.
~ Henry James
In short, the truth of the matter was, Nippers knew not what he wanted. Or, if he wanted any thing
~ Henry James
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
~ Jim Hightower
I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.
~ John Candy