Quotes About Unattainable

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility towards the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest

Es un dolor extraño. [...] Morir de nostalgia por algo que no vivirás nunca (p.102)

Mourir de nostalgie pour quelque chose que tu ne vivras jamais.

1) - E' uno strano dolore. Piano. - Morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.

Es ist ein sonderbarer Schmerz. ... Nach etwas zu vergehen, das man nie erleben wird.

Sterven van heimwee naar iets dat je nooit zult beleven.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Sometimes it seems to me that that's all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

You are the trip I did not take; You are the pearls I cannot buy; You are my blue Italian lake; You are my piece of foreign sky.

I am in love, it seems, with what cannot be

The unfortunate part is that the only men who interest me at all are the totally ineligible ones.

Soy el negativo absoluto, la encarnación de la nada. Lo que se desea y no se puede obtener, lo que se sueña porque no puede existir, ahí se encuentra mi reino vano y ahí está establecido el trono que no me fue otorgado.

O que me dói não é O que há no coração Mas essas coisas lindas Que nunca existirão… São as formas sem forma Que passam sem que a dor As possa conhecer Ou as sonhar o amor. São como se a tristeza Fosse árvore e uma a uma, Caíssem suas folhas Entre o vestígio e a bruma

Wanting to go and die in Peking and not being able to is something that weighs on me like the idea of some imminent cataclysm.

Siempre he pertenecido a lo que no está donde estoy y a lo que no he podido ser nunca.

You wanted a blue rose, Brock said. Didn't you? Wasn't that the whole point? Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?(Elinor) Here's what I think: it's the quest that matters.(Brock)

Why do you hate yourself?" And before I know it, Gat is lying on the bed next to me. His cold fingers wrap around my hot ones, and his face is close to mine. He kisses me. "Because I want things I can't have," he whispers.

Absolute certainty is no more attainable in metaphysics than it is in any other field of rational inquiry and it is unfair to criticize metaphysics for failing to deliver what no other discipline - not even mathematics - is expected to deliver.

SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun 'tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

Ideals make reason inaccessible.

But did I ever get over her? She came to symbolize everything I wanted and would never have.