Quotes About Choice

Ladies, a second piece of advice--do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.

He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?

A person who is seated instead of standing erect — destinies hang upon such a thing as that.

What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I will have enjoyed myself.

Flat ubi vult

At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without

And whatever he did, he always fell back onto this paradox at the core of his thought. To remain in paradise and become a demon! To re-enter hell and become an angel!

To cling to his paradise and become a devil or become a saint by going back to hell?

He resolved to leave the convent.

Senin vazifen, unutmak veya ölmek... Azab?ndan kime ne!

As for him, he took the path which shortens,—the Gospel's.

All war is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it.

Et quoi qu'il fit, il retombait toujours sur ce poignant dilemme qui était au fond de sa rêverie : - rester dans le paradis et y devenir démon ! rentrer dans l'enfer et y devenir ange !

Um dos livreiros para quem trabalhava, Magimel, creio eu, oferecera-lhe levá-lo para sua casa, fornecer-lhe um trabalho regular e dar-lhe 1500 francos por ano. Ter boa casa e 1500 francos, que boa coisa! Mas renunciar à sua liberdade, ser uma espécie de mercenário, uma espécie de literato-caixeiro. Segundo o modo de ver de Mário, (...) ganhava em comodidades e perdia em dignidade

Javier was born in a prison (...) he grew up to think himself without the pale of society and despaired of ever entering it. He noticed that society closes its doors without pity on two classes of men, those who attack it and those who guard it. He could choose between these two classes only.

Finally, he said to himself that it was a necessity, that his destiny was so fixed, that it was not for him to derange the arrangements of God, that at all events he must choose, either virtue without, and abomination within, or sanctity within, and infamy without.

AÅŸk?n orta yolu yoktur; ya mahveder ya kurtar?r. AÅŸk, ölüm deÄŸilse hayatt?r.

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction.

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future. She

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice. Taking

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. Sometimes, settling down was just plain settling.

Love is a gift from God—what we do with it is up to us.

The love, it comes in the beginning of her life and at the end of yours. God is cruel that way. Your heart, is it too broken to love?" "Of course not." "So, you go on." She shrugged, as if to say, Motherhood. "What choice is there for us?