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predicament

«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 want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.»
«Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.»
Author: Paul de Man | Keywords: displace, predicament
«Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.»
Author: Richard Avedon | About: Actors and acting, Movies | Keywords: predicament
«If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.»
«That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.»
«Life is a predicament which precedes death»
Author: Henry James | About: Life | Keywords: precedes, predicament
«PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency.»
«If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends»