Quotes About Unattainable

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

A prophetic world that can never come true.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

The one real woman you want just doesn't exist. She's a dream you have to live with. Reaching, reaching, reaching - but never touching.

Todo lo que ha ocurrido es sólo una parábola. Lo que es inalcanzable se convierte en suceso. Lo que es indescriptible se ha realizado aquí. Lo eterno-femenino nos permite avanzar.

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

Well, I'd have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

Verkligheten var en föränderlig skyltning i ett butiksfönster, manipulerad av händer när man inte såg, lockande och ständigt utom räckhåll.

It's on the field, it's on the pane, it's in the sky — beauty; and I can't get at it; I can't have it — I, she seemed to add, with that little clutch of the hand which was so characteristic, who adore it so passionately, would give the whole world to possess it!

The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.

Christianity to me is like a hopeless love affair. It is infinitely dear and infinitely unattainable.

My love for you grows everyday. You know all of my fears. You know how many times I have cried.It all seems perfect. But it's not as good as it seems. Because I can't have you ever. Because this love was only a dream.

To heal my heart and drown my sorrows of yesterday. Was everything I could ever want… And nothing I could ever have.

I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

I just keep waiting for it not to hurt so bad. Every time I meet a woman, I want her to be you. And these sweet, pretty, smart girls fail so miserably. There's nothing wrong with them; they're just not you. You know that 'other half' people spend their life looking for? I already found her. She's somewhere watching Inside the Actor's Studio and eating yellow Skittles without me. I know who she is. But I can't have her.

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!

It's certainly possible that the imaginary is best. Like a painting of some idyllic landscape. The place you would most like to be. That you never will.

What is it then, that they want, that they are forever rampant and unsatisfied, the king of beasts and the defender of virgins? What is this Crown that hovers between them, unattainable?

this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.

I will never see her, hard as I try to look past love. My eyes will always cast a light over her, and I will always think that this love, mine for her, is a dear thing. But it is as common as sand, as common as flesh.

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.