„Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.“

„In the end, love kills and love saves lives.“

—  Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

„"Sometimes it comes down to a choice. Between saving one person and saving the whole world. I've seen it happen, and I'm selfish enough to want the person who loves me to choose me. But Nephilim will always choose the world. I look at Alec and I feel like Lucifer in Paradise Lost. "Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is." He meant it in the classic sense. 'Awful' as in inspiring awe. And awe is well and good, but it's poison to love. Love has to be between equals."“

—  Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments

„…I finally understood what true love really meant. …that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, buch Dear John

„I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

„Seeing that your love's true.
Never I'll doubt you.
My heart belongs to you.
That's alright with me.
Worlds could end around me.
So in love that I can't see.
You and me were meant to be.
That's alright with me.“

—  Janet Jackson singer from the United States 1966

„I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver American author, poet and essayist 1955

„To look straight into the eyes of my death/ My non-being/ To face myself as living and dying/ In the bare nakedness of my life and non-life.“

—  Kuruvilla Pandikattu Indian philosopher 1957

„Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that’s what pleases me.“

—  James Blish, buch A Case of Conscience

„All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.“

—  Johnny Cash American singer-songwriter 1932 - 2003

„When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be. I love you, Maddie, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say it to you again.“

—  Rachel Gibson American writer 1961

„Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.“

—  Steven Erikson, buch Memories of Ice

„It was a long season of mourning and there were times when I wondered if I should mourn all my life and never again be free of it; but at last I could remember without weeping, and recall the days of love without unending sorrow welling up like tears from the very depths of my being. There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever; even in dreams, I never saw again his face, and though I longed for it, I came at last to see that it was just as well, lest I live all the rest of my life in dreams…but at last there came a day when I could look back and know that the time for mourning was ended.“

—  Marion Zimmer Bradley, buch Die Nebel von Avalon

„If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, buch Choke

„Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger, I would give my life for it.“

—  Magda Goebbels German politician 1901 - 1945

„At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that’s a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.“

—  Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963

„Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.“

—  Lev Grossman, buch The Magician's Land

„I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.“

—  Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962

„Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.“

—  Paulo Coelho, Maktub

„Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.“

—  Marianne Williamson American writer 1952