Quotes About Unattainable

Desiring something that you cannot possess is but a fruitless voyage.

It was like when a midde-aged woman, happily married, found out that her favorite movie star was gay. It broke her heart just a litte to know that there wasn't even a chance in fantasyland for the two of them to ever touch.

Todo el mundo quiere lo que no puede tener.

[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

She's not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want. Lews Therin laughed maniacally. It

And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them, or melt them, or make them overflow. We can't flood them, or blow them up, or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

Art can do the opposite of glamourizing the unattainable; it can reawaken us to the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it.

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

She couldn't even be jealous; it was something so lovely and far out of reach. It would be like being jealous of Amal Clooney.

Perfection cannot be attained for as humans we all have a different opinion of what perfection is

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyways. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way.

forbidden love stories are utopian by nature, especially in contrast with the mundane constraints of marriage and family.2 A prime characteristic of this liminal universe—and the key to its irresistible power—is that it is unattainable.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.

I met Prince Harry at Westminster and I want him to be my new boyfriend, but unfortunately I don't think it is going to happen.

You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.

Everyone, mostly in his or her school or college days, falls for someone unachievable, whom they can't express their feelings to. It happened with me as well.

The High Chair Tyrant who attacks his human host is the perfectionist; he expects the impossible of himself and berates himself (just as his mother did) when he can't meet the demands of the infant within. The Tyrant pressures a man for more and better performance and is never satisfied with what he produces. The unfortunate man becomes the slave (as the mother was) of the grandiose two-year-old inside of him.

Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please.

Fatherhood. Always unlikely. Like winning the Nobel Prize, or playing in the World Series. Not for him.

She'd wanted love, a husband and children, a home filled with laughter and security, the things she'd never had as a child. She'd stopped even dreaming about them, she realized, and that was the saddest thing of all. But then she'd never really had a chance; she'd fallen in love with the one man she couldn't have, and it appeared that she was one of those women who loved on once in their lifetime