Richard Serra Quotes

You have to choose your future regrets.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

To live is to choose.

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.