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Quotes About Hesitation

Perhaps if he were to open the door to the next room, or even the door to the hall, the two would not dare stop him, perhaps the best solution would be to bring the whole matter to a head. But then they might indeed grab him, and once subdued he would lose any degree of superiority he might still hold over them. Therefore he preferred the safety of whatever solution would surely arise in the natural course of things and returned to his room without a further word having passed on either side.
~ Franz Kafka
Åžov?iala înaintea naÅŸterii.Dac? exist? într-adev?r metempsihoz?,atunci n-am ajuns pân? la treapta cea mai de jos.ViaÅ£a mea este ezitarea dinaintea naÅŸterii
~ Franz Kafka
Hace poco me preguntaste por qué digo que te tengo miedo. Como de costumbre, no supe darte una respuesta
~ Franz Kafka
Istnieje cel, ale nie ma drogi; to, co nazywasz drogÄ…, jest wahaniem.
~ Franz Kafka
Existe um objetivo, mas nenhum caminho; o que chamamos de caminho é hesitação.
~ Franz Kafka
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
~ Robert Crumb
One of these days, he said to himself, I'm going to tell her. Tell her I love her more than I thought I could love a woman. Tell her that my life started when she walked into town. But not yet. He didn't want to back her into a corner and make her feel she had to either say she loved him, too, or run. "Well,
~ Robyn Carr
A beginning of an unfinished conversation that I didn't have the guts to take control of.
~ Robyn Schneider
You replace all my doubts... with others.
~ Romulus Linney
Oamenii trec de la o comedie la alta. Între timp piesa nu e înc? montat?, nu-i discern contururile, rolul ce li se potriveÅŸte cel mai bine, ÅŸi-atunci stau aÅŸa, cu mâinile-n sân în faÅ£a evenimentului, cu instinctele repliate ca o umbrel?, cl?tinând din cap în ÅŸov?iala lor, reduÅŸi la a fi ei înÅŸiÅŸi, adic? nimic. Cârpe pleoÅŸtite.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I can never make up my mind about anything myself - I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decided to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. It's dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way, and there is no use in blaming me for it, as some people do.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ambiguities everywhere should be collected as evidence of ambivalence.
~ Lyn Hejinian
Anders took the phone, but his attention was on the computer on his lap. It had gone into standby mode. As he waited impatiently for it to start up again, he muttered, "I should have told her." "Told who what?" Mortimer asked, distractedly. "Valerie, I should have told her I love her. But I figured she'd think it was too soon and—" He didn't bother finishing.
~ Lynsay Sands
Algum tempo hesitei se devia abrir estas memórias pelo princípio ou pelo fim, isto é, se poria em primeiro lugar o meu nascimento ou a minha morte.
~ Machado de Assis
didn't know whether or not she
~ Maeve Binchy
Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!
~ Gary Patton
once you have lifted your foot, do not be in a hurry to put it down again: who can tell what menacing nest of vipers you might step on.
~ Amos Oz
Perhaps I should not tell him the dream. It puts me in his hands, it is giving him too much
~ Anais Nin
Listen to Nagging Doubts—Start When You're Ready
~ Andrew Hunt
Why didn't he say yes? Freddy's voice from the past: You want me to stay here with you forever? Why didn't he say yes?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Why didn't he say yes?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
I don't know what I want or what I feel. I thought I wanted this. Us. But now I'm not so sure.
~ Ann Hood
She sounded pretty certain. I wasn't so confident.
~ Ann M. Martin
I kept second-guessing my decision. Half the time, I'd wanted to call every BSC member and say, Just kidding! The other half, I'd felt this sense of relief. Yes, relief. It was faint, but it was definitely there.
~ Ann M. Martin