Dilemma Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.”

W.H. Auden

Freedom, Importance, Human Nature, Dilemma, Self-worth

2. “We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.”

Thomas Jefferson

Justice, Self-preservation, Dilemma, Moral Conflict, Political Challenge

3. “To have a choice at all is to be free – even when the choice is between two terrible things.”

Orson Scott Card

Freedom, Choice, Dilemma, Free Will, Moral Complexity, Philosophical Perspective

4. “Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.”

Albert Camus

Freedom Vs Wealth, Personal Choice, Social Struggle, Dilemma, Power, Society

5. “Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?”

Charles Bukowski

Existential Question, Life Dilemma, Personal Crisis, Question, Crisis, Dilemma

6. “Now, quite apart from the fact that the doors were locked, should he really call out for help? In spite of all his distress, he was unable to suppress a smile at this idea.”

Franz Kafka

Existential Dilemma, Emotional Paradox, Personal Conflict, Help, Dilemma, Humor

7. “And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better – cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Exalted Suffering, Happiness Dilemma, Happiness, Suffering, Dilemma, Exalted

8. “I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?”

George R. R. Martin

Oaths, Honor, Integrity, Drunkenness, Dilemma