Sara Zarr Quotes

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

My mind is cautious but my heart is in a hurry.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down - I'm out on a limb here, so watch my back.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

I don't really want to direct myself, but I'm certainly torn in that direction.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.