Quotes About Dilemma

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

I'm not a sh*tty person, but I'm about to do a sh*tty thing.

I'm not a shitty person, but I'm about to do a shitty thing.

It's a known fact that in life, you can't have everything. In my heart I knew I loved them both, as much as possible to love two people at the same time. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. I knew that now—that love wasn't something you could erase, no matter how hard you tried.

What now?" Conrad didn't let me off the hook that easy. He said, "What now with you and Jeremiah or with you and me?

It wasn't was easy as picking one over the other. Nothing ever was. It wasn't as though I'd even had a choice, not really.

That night, I didn't sleep at all. I stayed up, thinking about what to do. What was the right thing to do? Because I knew I loved you. But I knew I shouldn't. I didn't have the right to love anybody then.

It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.

Why am I the one making all these concessions, pretending to be okay with something I'm not actually okay with?

Why am I the one making all these concessions, pretending to be okay with something I'm not actually okay with? Just to keep him?

You'll soon find that doing the right thing is rarely the easy choice. But I promise you'll sleep better at night because of it.

Two Jokes 1. A man is standing on the bank of a river when it suddenly begins to flood. His wife and his mistress are both being swept away. Who should he save? His wife. (Because his mistress will always understand.) 2. A man is standing on the bank of a river when it suddenly begins to flood. His wife and his mistress are both being swept away. Who should he save? His mistress. (Because his wife will never understand.)

Once my mother had asked me, "Is it better to burn to death or freeze to death?" and the right answer was freeze because at the very end there was a trick that made you think you were warm.

There is still such crookedness in my heart. I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.

Zum allgemeinen Besten, wie sie meinten, den Teufel zu brauchen, hatte keiner sich gescheut, aber persönliche Bekanntschaft mit ihm zu machen, begehrte keiner.

It was in Rio that I realized the extent of the dilemma posed by the hallucinatory knowledge of indigenous people. On the one hand, its results are empirically confirmed and used by the pharmaceutical industry; on the other hand, its origin cannot be discussed scientifically because it contradicts the axioms of Western knowledge.

God is either good and not all powerful, or He is powerful and not all good. You can't have it both ways.

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

The look on your face is priceless. You can't decide if you want to go 'oh poor baby' or spit on my shadow." "Sounds about right," Ash admitted.