Quotes About Dilemma

If you drive a man to choose between death of his body or corruption of his soul, how much are you also to blame if his choice is the wrong one?

Love does forgive, but can it forgive everything? Should it? Which loyalties came first—family, or belief in right and wrong?

not everything comes with an easy answer, or without a price.

Which was worse, to intrude or to pretend not to have seen, because you had no idea what to do?

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?

That's our damnation," he whispered. "Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds.

Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Oh, not goodness again," he said. "You and your malady of mortality, and your malady of goodness.

Did I love this child too much to do what I planned to do?

I wanted this child-this boy who was now two years older than when I'd found him-and yet I wanted everything else for him, and my soul was torn, just as my heart was torn.

He's a dope. She's crazy about him, he's in love with her, and yet he's being all noble and leaving her. He's a fathead.

If I know Mom,' she said, 'she'd have refused any surgery anyhow.' 'It's true,' Amanda said. 'Her advance directive basically asked us to put her out on an ice floe if she developed so much as a hangnail.

life is problematic, so novels must be too.

Öylesine s?n?rlanm???z ki kendi kayg?lar?m?zla, sürekli dönüp baÅŸa geliyoruz, öyle ki art?k doÄŸru ile yanl???, yasad??? hevesle en saf ideal aras?ndaki fark? bile ay?rt edemiyoruz. Ä°ngmar Bergman

The priest raises his foot. In it he feels a dull, heavy pain. This is no mere formality. He will now trample on what he has considered the most beautiful thing in his life, on what he has believed most pure, on what is filled with the ideals and the dreams of man.

Lako je umreti za dobro i lepo; teško je umreti za bedno i pokvareno - to je ono što sam tada odjednom shvatio.

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Perhaps many of them shared my sentiments, but our options then were black and white, between this and that. The grey area of freedom we longed for existed only in dreams.

What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.

Without making universal claims, we can assume that people in the contemporary West … live lives bedeviled by the porcupine dilemma. That is, we struggle on a daily basis to balance privacy and community, concern for self and others, sexual union and a room of our own.

That was bad news. Terrible. The worst.

And I laughed because half of me was happy and half of me wasn't sure what else to do.