Quotes About Dilemma

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

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.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His

They know they're supposed to do something, but they're not sure what. And you know what they do when they're not sure-- of course you do: They either do the wrong thing or they do nothing, and it's a toss up as to which is worse.

It's amazing […] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction.

Having no choices, no agency, was a killer, but having too many was equally crippling.

This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.

Forget about what goblins would do. Forget about what an adventurer would do. I need to figure out what Jig should do.