Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

There is such a choice of difficulties, that I own myself at a loss how to determine

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant loosing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

I'm not good with decisions.

It does happen sometimes that you aren't able to understand whether you should go for a particular film or not, and you are left with only one or two choices.

I find it very hard to make choices.

If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.

It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.