Quotes About Unattainable

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after 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.

and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

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Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.

But however hard I tried, I believe now there would have remained something beyond my reach.

It were all oneThat I should love a bright particular starAnd think to wed it, he is so above me.

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Optimism is like a firefly. A bright blaze of hope, unable to be captured.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover.

He was like a star in the night sky above and she but a sparrow. No matter how high she might try to fly, she'd never reach him.

But I want you to know that you're a beautiful girl, far more beautiful than I ever was at your age, and that starving yourself to compete with all of those skinny celebrities who spend half their lives checking in and out of rehab is not only a completely unreasonable and unattainable goal, but will only end up making you sick.

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

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

One loves only the things one cannot conquer.

Dreams, memories, the sacred—they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desting, tear d touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

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