Quotes About Indecision

Maybes. Possibles. Don't knows.

A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

hesitated; swooped again; hesitated again; swooped once more

Uncertainty is the normal state.

It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.

We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters.

I didn't know what to do. Susan was temporary. My foot was permanent.

i feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car & then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tires i'm torn between the compulsion to run & the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass

Bryce was a typical man—he didn't know what he needed; he just knew what he liked.

Out of the whole multitude of prudent men in the world, the great majority are so from timidity.

I found it paralyzingly difficult to make even the simplest decisions. So much hung in the balance, so many complicated parameters needed to be taken into consideration, yet always there was too little information, no way to know what outcomes could result. Life was a terrifying, invisible web of consequences. What mayhem might I unknowingly wreak by saying yes when I could have said no, by going east instead of west?

Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Doubt breeds doubt.

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.

También quiere que ella le diga qué hacer consigo mismo: si ha de seguir saliendo todas las mañanas a hacer el reparto y tumbarse por las tardes en la cama a descansar y escuchar la radio y (cada vez más a menudo) beber, y luego quedarse dormido y dormir el sueño de los muertos durante ocho, nueve o hasta diez horas; o bien si ha de salir al mundo y hacer algo del todo distinto.

snagged a Tootsie Pop—then saw that it was orange, and traded that for a grape one.

He was a good man and a kind man but he never knew what he wanted. I think that eventually it killed him.

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.