Quotes About Unattainable

There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

Final truth in this world is unattainable, but its pursuit leads the individual away from unfreedom.

All human culture is but an attempt at something unattainable, something which far transcends our powers of realization. There it stands, mutilated, tragic as a torso. Is not the human spirit itself a torso?

Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too

I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up.

He could never be happy; as an obsessive perfectionist, perfection would always stay tantalizingly out of reach

It's not easy to live with something you can't have

Solutions-focused therapists learn to focus their patients on the first hints of the miracle—"What's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think the problem was gone"—because they want to avoid answers that are overly grand and unattainable:

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

The most important thing, thought Edith, is what happens to a person when they see mountains. The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is

I very nearly wished that I had been born a Hattifattener under the Hattifatteners' vague and drifting stars, and that no one expected anything else of me than that I also should be drifting along toward an unattainable horizon, never speaking to anyone and never mindful of anything.

Wanting no other man save the one she could not get, any other man, the nearest at hand, served her purpose.

Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest

She was sitting there in her little housedress. He knew she'd done what she could to avoid becoming luminous and unattainable. Timidly and with respect, he was looking at her. He'd grown older, weary, curious. But he didn't have a single word to say. From the open doorway he saw his wife on the sofa without leaning back, once again alert and tranquil, as if on a train. That had already departed.

Él, que se había interesado por Lori únicamente por el deseo, parecía ahora ver lo inalcanzable que era ella. Y más: no sólo inalcanzable para él, sino para ella misma y para el mundo. Ella vivía a causa de una estrechez en el pecho: la vida.

Nesse dia, pois, ele conheceu uma das raras formas de estabilidade: A estabilidade do desejo irrealizável, a estabilidade do ideal inatingível

One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.

I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.

I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.

You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harries - no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never weeps, he knows not why If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop.