lack of alternatives Quotes

I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

Most people don't want to work in commercial sex. They have little choice.

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

I just love fighting. I know I'm not the best, but I'm still pretty good, there's a lot of people I can still beat. What do you do. What else am I supposed to do? I have no other skills. I enjoy doing this. There's nothing I'd really rather do, you know?

If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

There's no real alternative to what there is.

You probably don't have much of a choice.

Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you're in it, when you're up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don't exactly notice how bad things really are.

The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

I can't even go on a spontaneous walk or to a restaurant without armored cars and police, but there is no alternative.