Quotes About Choice

This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.

In their world good manners and good sense prevail. They don't imagine that to choose sensibly is to set a time-bomb under yourself. They don't imagine you are ripe for the cutting, waiting for your chance at life. They don't think of the wreckage an exploding life will cause… Settle down, feet under the table. She's a nice girl, he's a nice boy. It's the clichés that cause the trouble.

Ne sachant quoi lire ni dans quel ordre, j'ai suivi l'alphabet. Dieu merci, elle s'appelait Austen...

I said, If we were good always would we be happy always? No, said Grandmother. Then I shall be bad.

Once out of the body you will be able to choose any form you like, and change it as often as you like. Animal, vegetable, mineral. The gods appeared in human form and animal form, and they changed others into trees or birds. Those were stories about the future. We have always known that we are not limited to the shape we inhabit.

And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere.

Choosing to be alive and consciously committing to life, in all its exuberant chaos- and it's pain.

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here.

It is not always possible to forgive oneself. And sometimes you make a choice to do something, knowing that you must do it, and that forgiveness is impossible.

So what is it to be? Banality of convention or banality of individuation? Shall I choose society's clichés or my own? Is it a step forward to have understood that there is no real difference between them?

Choice of subject, like choice of lover, is an intimate decision. Decision, the moment of saying yes, is prompted by something deeper; recognition. I recognise you; I know you again, from a dream or another life, or perhaps even from a chance sighting in a café, years ago.

What if?' has no power against 'What if not?' The not of you is unbearable. I must have you.

Tengo la teoría de que, cada vez que decides algo importante, la parte de ti que dejas atrás continúa la otra vida que podrías haber vivido

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body.

When Lot's wife looked over her shoulder, she turned into a pillar of salt. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self.

there's no choice that doesn't mean a loss

I have a theory that every time you make an important decision, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

The future is not fixed unless we allow it to be so.

Die Wahrheit aber ist, dieses Wäre ist immer nur eine Erfindung. Ich kann nur die Entscheidungen treffen, die ich treffe, warum sich also quälen mit dem, was gewesen wäre, wenn ich doch nur bewältigen kann, was war? Die Wäre-Inseln sind für den Menschen unbewohnbar.

Free will depends on being stronger than the moment that traps you.

I keep seeing my life darting off in the different directions it could have taken, as chance and circumstance, temperament and desire, open and close, open and close gates, routes, roadways. And yet there feels like an inevitability to who I am--just as of all the planets in all the universes, planet blue, this planet Earth, is the one that is home.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people's emancipation are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their body. [...] There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did and didn't make, for a moment brush against each other. That I am still an evangelist in the North, as well as the person who ran away.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines; the path not taken and the forgotten angle. These are the journeys I wish to record. Not the ones I made, but the ones I might have made, or perhaps did make in some other place or time.