Quotes About Unattainable

You are the great love of my life that I'm never going to have.

Soñar no cuesta nada y es como vivir otra vida: la que todas habríamos querido y que no tendremos jamás.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

Solo sufre por lo que no sabe. Lo que sabe, le deja indiferente. Si sabe algo de algo, pero no puede llegar a saber qué es y cómo es, entonces eso le atrae y tiene ganas de saber más. Lo inalcanzable seduce.

And just like that, I knew what I wanted. Something I had always wanted. But it was so unrealistic it hadn't even made it to my wish list.

In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in fact, be the hardest truth of human existence.

It hurts to look at what you can't have

Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable- Caucasian characteristics for all. Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in deserts. but she would not forsake his altars. Behind her crude words was a belief that somehow she and others through worship could attain her paradise- a heaven of straight-haired, thin-lipped, high-nose boned white seraphs.

Yes, a man fears to find in such a woman something unattainable, unpossessable, unconquerable. The woman of strong mind should remain a symbol; as a reality she must be feared. Camille Maupin is in some ways the living image of Schiller's Isis, seated in the darkness of the temple, at whose feet her priests find the dead bodies of the daring men who have consulted her.

Why do you always want the things that you cannot have...

I want the moon, up there. But... he will always be unreachable.

And what is love anyway but the unattainable, the reaching out toward an illusion?

Some dreams just seemed beyond him.

Yeah, but 'beyond reach' means you want to reach something. It's more than far away; there's an absence. Missing something you can't have.

Part of the beauty of Victoria's Secret modeling is that they are called 'Angels' for a reason - because they're aesthetics are supposed to be unobtainable. But so are mine. No one could ever be me. Look exactly as I do. Be exactly as I am.

Poppy was every fine, good, unselfish impulse that he would never have. She was every caring thought, loving gesture, happy moment, that he would never know. She was every minute of peaceful sleep that would forever elude him." - Harry's thoughts

I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

Loving you is like trying to touch a star, I know I can never reach you, but I can't help but try.

The love that lasts the longest is the love that can never be.

For it is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

Could she *be* anymore out of my league?