Quotes About Unattainable

The fact that we can't kiss our elbow helps us to realize that some things in life are very close to us, but still beyond our reach.

I am the horizon you ride towards, the thing you can never lasso

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've liked them too. But I'll tell you what: try belonging body and soul to a man who will never belong to you; see how well you like those films then. "Don't ask for the moon-we have the stars!" ... "Pardon me saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

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

Just because we don't talk doesn't mean I don't think about you. I'm just trying to distance myself because I know I can't have you.

Wanting to be with you is like reaching for the star, I know I wont be able to grab you right on top of my palm but I could always see you shining from afar...giving me light from my darkest hour...

But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.

Love is the expression of simplicity in emotion, the unattainable longing that comes so unexpectedly, with great subtlety and bliss

People always desire that which they cannot have.

Because---and this was the first time I understood this--- everyone always like the best, wants the most, admires deeply, the girl who's just out of reach. The girl no one can touch, really. We don't know why we're drawn, but it's unstoppable.

I'd been a substitute for something they both wanted and neither could have.

I'm comparing you to . . . rugby and . . . my voice breaking . . . and everything I love but don't understand." "To the failures in your life." "No. I'm comparing you to all the things I love doing best and I just can't have when I want them.

I think there are plenty of people out there, men and women both, who have pined over someone who is unattainable — only to have their heart broken time and again.

Illium was a stunning sight against the lightening sky, his wings sweeping through the air with a grace that made him seem a half-forgotten dream. When he landed in the courtyard, his wings flaring out for an instant, he was at once very much a man, physical and sexual, and an unattainable fantasy.

There's people in hell who want ice water.

he hadn't wanted to go through life heartsick for something he could not have.

So much that he can only glimpse enough of to know that it's forever beyond his reach.

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

The café I'll never realize, the cafés I'll never know.

Desire for something impossible does not make it less impossible.