Predicament Quotes
79 quotes by 72 authors
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She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world…
— Philippa Gregory
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We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other,…
— Tonya Hurley
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Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal,…
— Georgette Heyer
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there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and…
— Pete Wentz
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It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even…
— Pema Chodron
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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
— Ram Dass
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
— Paul de Man
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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . . speaks…
— Christopher Fry
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I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with…
— Franz Wright
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A man laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer, and a woman laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you…
— Dan Millman
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Everything becomes worse when the people you expect to understand you most are the very ones that show they've no idea about your predicament...and yet,…
— Terry Mark
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They told her she wasn't pretty. She knew they were right. The desire to be skinny took over her at night. She wanted more than…
— Jackie
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My sense of humour has gone haywire I feed it miseries It laughs at me What a precarious predicament!
— Nick Kler
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I attempt to become as totally responsible to the subject as I possibly can. The act of being an outsider aiming a camera can be…
— James Nachtwey
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He brings light, as only the great dare to bring light, to the issueless predicament of existence.
— Samuel Beckett
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I believe who we are is a mind state! Once we live by certain morals and ideologies that's what determine who we are, think about…
— Glen Rambharack
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You may feel like kicking yourself because you blame yourself for winding up in a tricky predicament, but all that will get you is a…
— 06 July
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I've thought myself into a predicament I'm truly going to enjoy.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Who Wrote These Predicament Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 79 Predicament Quotes, led by these top contributors: