Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

There's always a price for what you want.

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

Sometimes you have to give up one good in order to get another good.

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Nothing comes without a price.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

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