Quotes About Unreachable

Fifteen and a half years as incontestable, a continent he'd never visit, a staircase he'd never climb.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

They seem close, the stars, but they're far away. Their light is millions, billions of years out of date. Messages with no sender.

What is real is beyond all reach.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

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.

To dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable star!

but he was unreachable. As music is present yet you can't touch it...

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.

She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death.

The light of that jet, overhead, is my mind I'm seeing so scintillant, unreachable. I am never where my body is.

But God is everywhere; Tarshish he never reached.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

I don't think she's being mysterious on purpose. It's like she can't help it. She's not shy--she'll talk to anyone--and she's not exactly distant, but even so, she's unreachable, as if there's an invisible fence around her, or a force field the repels whatever gets too close.

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.

I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

Caroline has been sucked in by the cult. She is obsessed with Trump and adores him, as incommodious as that may seem. She's the masochistic follower who feels a compulsion to be tested, abused, and forced to prove they are deserving of the leader's love over and over and over again. And like many of our parents and grandparents and friends, she's become unreachable, thanks to consuming petty grievances and an impenetrable media bubble.

Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve

The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

Distant galaxies now visible in the night sky will ultimately disappear beyond an unreachable horizon, receding from us faster than the speed of light.

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

Daar, in dat meubelloze, ondanks de gezinsgrootte lege kamertje, temidden van de stapel naar verschaalde terpentijn riekende kerstbomen, ervoer ik voor het eerst in volle hevigheid de verlatenheid, die de onmiddellijke nabijheid van een in stomme aanbidding vereerd maar voor altijd onbereikbaar wezen inhoudt.

the cause—that is the place where we cannot go.