Quotes About Impossibility

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

Are you okay?" "I'm tired. My knee is hurting again and I'm trying to teleport myself upstairs." "Um, Kate, you can't do that." "I know. But I'm trying very hard. Let me know if I start fading?

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. – Voltaire

She felt intense disappointment, even a kind of guilt, as if she had missed something, perhaps forever. He had been there, she could have spoken to him. Could she call out now, cry his name? It was impossible.

But the poem was a Liebestod and although art cannot but console for what it weeps over, the completion of the poem left him sour and sick and utterly convinced of the henceforward impossibility of love.

Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go on and on and nothing would stop it. And no one from now on for ever would know how much he suffered and what it was really like to be him. How can I bear it, he thought, how can I go on bearing it without becoming something savage and awful?

Now a human caught in an impossibility often responds by a retreat from reality: by entry into a world of delusion, or by taking to drink, going of into hysteria, or jumping off a bridge. It all comes to the same thing-a refusal or inability to face the situation squarely.

if you wish to call the truth impossible, that is your privilege, but it will get you nowhere.

Las historias de viaje en el tiempo son demasiado divertidas para ser eliminadas simplemente por consideraciones mundanas sobre impracticabilidad o incluso imposibilidad.

The rate of technological advance has been slowing for centuries and is down to a crawl now. In some cases, it has stopped altogether. Is this something you've noticed? After all, you're a mathematician.' 'I can't say I've given the matter any thought.' 'No one does. It's accepted. Scientists are very good these days at saying that things are impossible, impractical, useless. They condemn any speculation at once.

The concept that you could possess land was as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

Sometimes I think I want to get 'hair and make up' every day, but that's just not possible.

I wasn't sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to folow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them.

I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible.

In a perfect world I would be taller, you would be alive, and chickens could cross the road without being the subject of a joke.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination.