Quotes about Choice

For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.

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?

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

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

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.

If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

Of course, uniformity rules everywhere. But in this park it has a wider choice of uniforms. So you can hold on to the illusion of your own individuality.

Man stopped wanting to walk, to walk on his own feet and enjoy it. What's more he longer saw his own life as a road, but as a highway

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

Is it better to shout and thereby hasten the end, or to keep silent and gain thereby a slower death?