Quotes About Unattainable

The longing for Joy is in itself Joy. When he recalled when he had experienced Joy, he was, in that recollection, experiencing Joy anew, though he knew it not. Joy was not a state; it was an arrow pointing to something beyond all states, something objective yet unattainable – at least in our earthly existence.

Svaki dan se budim i znam da ?u je vidjeti, a ipak joj ništa ne mogu šapnuti na uho niti joj dodirnuti ruku. Ne mogu je privoljeti da presko?i svoje sastanke, ne mogu je ukrasti iz društva drugih. Svaki je dan pozdravljam kao stranac i vidim bol u njezinim o?ima. Svaki dan je povrijedim svojom hladno?om, a ona mene uništava svojom.

Tutti scoprono, più o meno presto nella loro vita, che la felicità non è realizzabile, ma pochi si soffermano invece sulla considerazione opposta: che tale è anche una infelicità perfetta.

People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But

The thing we want the most is always the thing we cannot have.

Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid, material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead...

How? Well, if a girl has had enough of every man who exists, her only remaining desire could be for a man who doesn't exist at all . . .

If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.

It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

The sensation that for the world to exist with an object of such beauty in it—and for that object to be unattainable—was the very sweetest kind of pain imaginable.

We fall in love with people we can't have.

Dear Heart, please stop falling in love with people I cant get.

Love that we can not have is the one that last the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest.

Wanting you to love me is like wanting a snow in a summer.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Why are we doomed to crave most that which we cannot have?

Só a quero porque não a posso ter.Como um rapaz imberbe

Was there anything more cruel than to want something after years of not wanting, and to know you cannot have it?

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Being any kind of happy is better than being miserable wanting somebody you can't have.

I always fall for that one guy who is so out of reach, but he's still close enough to make it hurt.

Finding another you is like counting the exact population of the stars in the night sky. IMPOSSIBLE.

The love you can't have lasts the longest, feels the strongest and hurts the most.

The barriers of impossibility, which close off the field of reality to our dreams and desires, were shattered, and his thoughts drifted exuberantly through the unattainable, fired by their own movement.