Quotes About Unattainable

I like being the girl nobody can have.

They conjure up the retrospective vision of an unsurpassable happiness, enjoyed in the past, unattainable every after, yet enduringly alive in the memory: a bygone happiness ended by death; and not, as George III's paraphrase implies, a present happiness menaced by death.

Also, like the Holy Grail, the business plan remains largely unattainable and mythological. Most experts wouldn't agree, but a business plan is of limited usefulness for a startup because entrepreneurs base so much of their plans on assumptions, "visions," and unknowns.

The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try." [Zarek]

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

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

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

Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest

But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad . . . Three things these men have in common: faith in themselves, great determination and endurance. *

this endless reaching for what couldn't be reached. It seemed foolish

Central to modern expectations, and modern ethical feeling, is the conviction that war is an aberration, if an unstoppable one. That peace is the norm, if an unattainable one. This, of course, is not the way war has been regarded throughout history. War has been the norm and peace the exception.

The only thing worse than constantly seeing what you can't have is constantly seeing what you must have.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

What is this thing that makes us human? Birth, heartbreak, a desire for safety and order? Is it anger, shame, or fear? What we desire is unattainable and although we know it, we keep striving for it. Sisyphus, the Greek god, and all that.

True justice was the brass ring just out of reach.

Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

He knows that for all the undeserved bounty of his life, she will always be there, at the edge of his vision, to remind him of all the things he can never have.

Maybe that was why I was so attracted to him. Because he was unattainable.

Creo que no te quiero, que solamente quiero la imposibilidad tan obvia de quererte. Como el guante izquierdo enamorado de la mano derecha.

It is a nothingness unattainable by the intellect.

We want what we can't have, even when we have no right to demand it.