Quotes About Impossibility

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

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

It was a painful week, swung between doubt and hope. I knew that tension well. It is just the same before I begin to write a book or a poem. It is the tension of being on the brink of a major commitment, and not being quite sure whether one has it in one to carry it through - the stage where the impossible almost exactly balances the possible, and a thistledown may shift the scales one way or another.

He told me what I could do to myself, which was a sexual impossibility.

There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal, Eddis said. So? If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.

The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is

There is no logical impossibility in the supposition that the whole of life is a dream, in which we ourselves create all the objects that come before us. But although this is not logically impossible, there is no reason whatever to suppose that it is true; and it is, in fact, a less simple hypothesis, viewed as a means of accounting for the facts of our own life, than the common-sense hypothesis that there really are objects independent of us, whose action on us causes our sensations.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I'd ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love.

I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love. I myself, for instance. It seemed like I was now thinking of Zach forty minutes out of every hour, Zach, who was an impossibility. That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log throw on the fires of love.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the world is a great big log on the fires of love.

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

He suddenly suspected what everyone comes to understand sooner or later, that communication was impossible and not even desirable, that compassion was worth no more than hate, that a tolerant indifference, an attention divided between respect and sensuality, was all that could be asked or be given.

It was an impossibility, but Augusta lived quite comfortably with impossibilities.

The world was a broken mirror, fractured into impossibilities.

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

If dreams are thwarted, then yearning must take their place If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place.

La nostalgia terrible de una vida perdida, el fatal sentimiento de haber nacido tarde, o la ilusión inquieta de un mañana imposible con la inquietud cercana del dolor de la carne.

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

Dragostea noastra e frumoasa pentru ca e imposibila...

Anger is needed to leave, to walk. That doesn't come from outside. In the hollow of the belly the pain of being here, the impossibility of remaining where you are, of being buried alive, of simply staying.

Humans are strange, adaptable animals, and eventually get used to anything, even the impossible or unbearable. ... Terror is tiring, and difficult to keep up indefinitely, so sooner or later it must be replaced with something more practical.