Quotes About Dilemma

You were going to sacrifice yourself to save everyone else?" I cringed. "Then I wimped out.

Friedrich Nietzsche says, "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

a loss unconsidered at the time. But to decide for anything is to decide against a multitude of other things. Taking is still more largely leaving. The full extent of this negative decision often escapes our notice, and through the very fact of choosing a good we blindly neglect a best.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

You think my life is such a precious thing to me, that I would trade my honor for a few more years, of what?

So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.

How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.

Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

You were wrong to love her, a voice whispered. You were wrong to leave her, a different voice insisted.

Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true.

He had no choice, he had told her, and then he left, choosing.

Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.

What if the wolves come?" – Lommy Greenhands "Yield." – Arya Stark

Choosing … it has always hurt. And always will.

You heard me. Go away. But... where should I go? To hell or home, as you prefer.

He did not know whether he ought to be delighted or terrified. Perhaps a smidge of both." - Tyrion

Tell me, Bronn. If I told you to kill a babe... an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast... would you do it? Without question? Without question? No. The sellsword rubbed thumb and forefinger together. I'd ask how much.

Am I still a thief if I put it all back and no one ever knows?

Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.