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Quotes About Unattainable

As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
~ T. C. Boyle
It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
~ Janet Fitch
There's people in hell who want ice water.
~ Nelson Algren
The longeswt love, is the love that cant be!
~ Karsten Andersen
Sometimes the man of your dream only belongs in your dream.
~ Precious Kerme
He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have…
~ Ranata Suzuki
But he knew she was a star, and he, only human. He was never meant to reach the stars - he could only admire them from afar.
~ Timothy Joshua
Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.
~ Marcel Proust, Jean Santeuil
And even if you hate her, can't stand her, even if she's ruining your life, there's something about her, some romance, some power. She's absolutely herself. No matter how hard you try, you'll never get to her. And when she dies, the world will be flat, too simple, reasonable, fair.
~ Mona Simpson
I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me.
~ Anna Kournikova
I can mark Messi only in my dreams.
~ Gennaro Gattuso
Traveling at night toward the stars, I thought yet again how very far away they were, and how you could travel your whole lifetime and never reach even the closest one. But even if you knew you couldn't have something, it didn't stop you wanting it. I wondered if Kate was to be my star, and I'd spend my life gazing upon her but never reaching her.
~ Kenneth Oppel
She cried for the love that could never be, for the kisses she could never again enjoy, for the arms that could never again hold." A Proper Companion.
~ Candice Hern
It's this beautiful thing you can never reach. No matter what you do, you'll never touch it. You can only look and imagine what it would be like to hold it.
~ Ilona Andrews
Somehow I've always wanted the ones that didn't want me. I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.
~ Iris Murdoch
ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.
~ Irvine Welsh
It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
He supposed that was the way of human beings, wanting what they couldn't have,
~ Susan Crandall
He was a glittering superhuman creature who must have been put on earth by a perverse God to remind homely women like herself that some things were unobtainable.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
To desire orchids is to have a desire that will never be, can never be, fully requited. A collector who wants one of every orchid species on earth will certainly die before even coming close.
~ Susan Orlean
I only have to worry about spending the rest of my life wanting someone I can't have.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Realm swayed and put his hand over his heart, watching after her. A sharp pain from knowing that you want something you don't deserve. That you can never have again.
~ Suzanne Young
A sharp pain from knowing that you want something you don't deserve. That you can never have again.
~ Suzanne Young
Suddenly, she was not pretty at all; she looked like a thousand-year-old teenager who wanted something she knew she couldn't have.
~ Tom Holt