Painful Decision Quotes

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know what China looked like before he took over, and so in my own mind, I don't think of Deng Xiaoping as an oppressor. I think of somebody who, faced with that crisis, made a very painful and decision with which I cannot agree. But I also think of him as a great reformer.

The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

It's a very sad thing to do, to divorce.