Camille Flammarion Quotes

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

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

I don't know if I want to get married again.

While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.

Have I gone too far?

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

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

I'm not sure I really want to step into the booth.

Anytime you have an injury, you're going to be iffy about stuff.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

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

I have more care to stay than will to go.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.