Quotes about Dilemma

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.

Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

For with love there is no middle course: it destroys, or else it saves. All human destiny is contained in that dilemma, the choice between destruction and salvation, which is nowhere more implacably posed than in love. Love is life, or it is death. It is the cradle, but also the coffin. One and the same impulse moves the human heart to say yes or no. Of all things God has created it is the human heart that sheds the brightest light and, alas, the blackest despair.

Was there a voice that whispered in his ear that he had just passed the most solemn moment of his destiny, that there was no longer a middle course for him; that from now on, he would either be the best of men or he would be the worst of men; that he now had to rise higher, so to speak, than the bishop or fall even lower than the galley slave; that if he wanted to be good, he had to be an angel; that if he wanted to stay bad, he had to be a monster from hell?