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Quotes About Choices

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
~ Tori Amos
Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.
~ Herman Wouk
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
~ Jack Kornfield
Life is a matter of really tough choices.
~ Joe Biden
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
~ John Donne
Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.
~ John Mayer
Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.
~ Mason Cooley
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
~ LeAnn Rimes
Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.
~ Anna Godbersen, Envy
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
~ Emily Giffin
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.
~ Jonathan Rosen, Eve's Apple
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
~ E.A. Bucchianeri
Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
~ Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns
~ Bob Dylan
Life is full of choices, but you never get any!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
~ David Byrne
The high cost of low living.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
~ Haruki Murakami
Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
~ Mason Cooley
Every morning brings thousands of opportunities; and thousands of perils too! Life is open to all the possibilities that a man can not even imagine!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie