Quotes About Unattainable

What do you do when you're in love with the last man in the world you can have? You plan a life, a real life, without him.

We want that which we have not; and especially that which we can never have.

It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

it would be ready again to lift another companion toward the shining silence which it could never reach.

But it was a lost cause. Like trying to find yesterday. You get the picture?

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

We long for what we cannot have, yet desire it not so much because it would benefit us, as because it is beyond our reach.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

Is there anything in the world more graceless, more dishonouring, than to desire a woman whom you will never have? Throughout

We all want things in life we can't have. Happens all the time. Jobs we don't get. Houses we don't live in. Health issues we sure as hell don't want. People we love who don't love us back. Not feeling the way someone wants you to feel doesn't make you a bad person.

L'avevo messo là dentro senza riflettere, poiché avevo immaginato che sarebbe stato particolarmente comodo averlo lì dentro. E ora, il pensiero che era lì, così a portata di mano e tanto vicino eppure irraggiungibile peggiorava la situazione e la rendeva insopportabile. Già, la cosa che non si può avere è la cosa che più si desidera; tutti lo sanno.

It was a nice dream, and an impossible one.

You want somethin' else, Eddie, and you can never have her!

In his hours alone, his mind wandered to a million possible outcomes, and he marveled at how long it had been since he had felt so preoccupied by a woman. It was because she was that rare thing, genuinely unobtainable. He should have given up days ago.

It's the thing about wanting something you can't have. And that thing of never being able to say what you really feel.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

We seem to have an insatiable thirst for places that don't exist, for griffins and wondrous dragons prowling the antipodes of a world we hardly recognize. They symbolize states of growth we haven't yet achieved.

She was too beautiful to excite me with the idea of accessibility.

The yearning in which the moonlit sky had engulfed me was like the craving I had felt for some woman whose body and spirit were unattainable. And now I perceived that it was just because the sky was likewise unattainable that I so yearned for it...

but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity

Sure, Noah was a bit closer than that...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't bread familiarity.

E' uno strano dolore. Morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.

If he tormented himself with unattainable desires, he would cripple his grasp on the law which enabled him to survive. His imagination could kill him, lead or seduce or trick him into suicide: seeing all the things he could not have would make him despair.