Quotes About Unattainable

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have

To be human is to want that which we can not have.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

What makes this constant assessing and comparing so self-defeating is that we are often comparing our lives, our marriages, our families, and our communities to unattainable, media-driven visions of perfection, or we're holding up our reality against our own fictional account of how great someone else has it. Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison.

Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception—we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable—there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.

It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the woman I loved and lost, the unattainable one [...] I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable. —Henry Miller, Stand Still like the Hummingbird (1962)

In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't.

And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.

Es gibt aber noch eine dritte, geheimnisvolle und beunruhigende Kategorie von Frauen. Jene, mit denen wir weder etwas haben durften noch konnten. Sie haben uns gefallen, wir haben ihnen gefallen, haben aber sofort begriffen, dass wir sie nicht haben können, weil wir uns mit ihnen jenseits der Grenze befunden hätten.

You're the one thing I want the most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You can't go where I walk.

Maybe it's because I can't have him that I feel safe wanting him. He's beyond my reach, so he won't hurt me.

It is thus that life at its topmost toss irks and pains. Beyond is ever the unattainable, the lure of the infinite with its infinite ache. - Oh, life! oh, youth! of, hope! oh, years! Oh pain-winged fancy, beating forth with fears.

There's no such thing as normal," Barrons says. "You keep thinking that. You suffer hiraeth." "Here-eyeth?" I echo. "A Welsh word that means unattainable longing for a place—or perhaps more accurately a state of being—that never existed. Nostalgia for something that never was.

The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have.

The truth is, balance is bunk. It is an unattainable pipe dream... . The quest for balance between work and life, as we've come to think of it, isn't just a losing proposition; it's a hurtful, destructive one." —Keith H. Hammonds

When a person requires something unattainable, such as total submission to an unreasonable demand, it is time to stop negotiating, because it's clear the person cannot be satisfied.

I was the forlorn seeker after a relationship which was always beyond my reach.

They never forget what they can't have

He looked up. She was standing a few feet away from him. He noticed that she was wearing a black beret at a rakish angle and that she looked exciting and mysterious like someone you see driving by abroad, alone in an open car, someone unattainable and more desirable than anyone you have ever known. Someone who is on her way to make love to somebody else. Someone who is not for you.

It was a cliché of romantic love, but no less painful for that: the stronger my feelings, the more remote and unattainable Miranda appeared.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.