Quotes About Dilemma

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't

Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

For every path you choose there's a path you must abandon

Every day we are faced with choices to make. Before making your choice, ask yourself the most basic question. Can you sleep at night with the choice you made?

Decisions are the hardest thing to make, especially when it is a choice between where you should be and where you want to be.

Life is like a multiple choice question. Sometimes its the choices that confuse you, not the question itself.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

It's really hard to decide when you're too tired to hold on, or you're too in love to let go.

It's hard to make a decision when you're too tired to hold on and too in love to let go.

The intellect does not recognise situations in life which have no issue.

I arrived there at the same time as the Germans. Everybody wanted to prevent me going, I was treated as though I were mad. 'What,' they said to me, 'you are safe in Paris and you want to leave for those invaded regions just as everybody else is trying to get away from them?' I recognised the justice of this reasoning but what was to be done?

At that moment I would have undertaken a mission to make Robert break with his mistress as readily as I had been to make him go and live with her permanently a few hours earlier. In the one case, Saint-Loup would have regarded me as a false friend; in the other, his family would have called me his evil genius. Yet, in that interval of a few hours, I was the same man.

He wasn't scared exactly, but he had that knife's edge thinness he used to get on the job, the sense that things could go either way.

There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

Which was the braver, the one who left, or the one who stayed?

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

The State must come before the individual soul. Yet Christ had shown that the individual soul mattered above all else. So how could one be a Christian and a statesman - let alone an Emperor? One could not, that was the answer.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.