Quotes that might help ...

Music 

Music Expresses things about the human experience so specifically, in such specific ways that when you attempt to find language to describe it the words fall short. ... Music expresses things about the human experience that cannot be expressed any other way. That's why it is so important."

 Matt Glaser in Ken Burns' documentary "Jazz"

Self pity

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

 D. H. Lawrence

 

Indecision

"During the Civil War, a man had trouble choosing a side. He couldn't decide between the North and the South. So he wore a blue coat and gray trousers ... They shot at him from both sides."

 Billy Graham