Predicament Quotes

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.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

We`re in such a predicament that I haven`t really thought about that stuff, ... We need to win, that`s the bottom line. It just happens to be that this week it`s Kansas City. Maybe the one there might be a little bit different but right now all I`m worried about is winning.