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Quotes About Unreachable

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
~ Peter Ustinov
I was famously in love with a woman who had no time to spare, not even a breath, for she dwelled in a place beyond time or the reach of anyone's Rolodex, her every breath measured out of pressurized tanks.
~ Jonathan Lethem
She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My brain contains so much that is locked up and unreachable.
~ Doris Lessing
I love long flights. The feeling of being completely unreachable is something I savor, and the limbolike state of being, having departed but not arrived, somehow allows me to catch up with myself, to regroup and check in.
~ Alan Cumming
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our generation still carry the old feelings. A part of us refuses to let go. The part that wants to keep believing there's something unreachable inside each of us. Something that's unique and won't transfer. But there's nothing like that, we know that now. You know that. For people our age it's a hard one to let go.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We're both of us sentimental. We can't help it. Our generation still carry the old feelings. A part of us refuses to let go. The part that wants to keep believing there's something unreachable inside each of us. Something that's unique and won't transfer. But there's nothing like that, we know that now. You know that.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Normal.Un cuvant atat de simplu,banal.Ciudat cum stralucea acum,ca un inel de alama pe un carusel, sclipind de promisiuni,atat de aproape,dar cu neputinta de atins.
~ Kelley Armstrong
donde Cristo perdió el mechero
~ Javier Marías
even if the previous millisecond is closer to us than the birth of the universe, it is equally out of reach.
~ Jean-Christophe Valtat
The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
One loves only the things one cannot conquer.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Grayson looked at me the way you look at art in a glass case, like he wanted to reach out to touch me but couldn't.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
~ Laurie Anderson
And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them, or melt them, or make them overflow. We can't flood them, or blow them up, or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching.
~ Laurie Anderson
hiraeth (n): a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home that maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for lost places in your past
~ Jenny Colgan
Words, Words, Words—they do not reach me.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
It was a strange thing: one never appeared to take a step forward int he heart or mind of this man. Those who wished, so to speak, to force their way into intimacy with him found the path blocked.
~ Alexandre Dumas
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Yo andaba sudorosa de un lado a otro ante su mirada imaginaria por el Boulevard des Italiens, mientras él estaba en cualquier otro lugar, inaccesible.
~ Annie Ernaux
Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.
~ Jacques Brel
To dream the impossible dream,To reach the unreachable star!
~ Joe Darion