Painful Choices Quotes

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

We know that we dearly love our family. They now consider us betrayers, and we are cut off from their lives, but we know they are well-intentioned. We will never not love them.

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.