Hubert Selby Jr. Quotes

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

The die has been cast.

There is no turning back.

It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.

Whatever your purpose is that leads you to the point of no return, that's where you go.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Is that your final answer?

It is done, and I will abide by it.

It's not can you, it's will you

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.

You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

What I have written, I have written.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you'll serve?

Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible.

She went on because there was no going back.