Quotes About Impossibility

Now is the time for the world to know That every thought and action is sacred. This is the time For you to compute the impossibility That there is anything But Grace. —Hafiz

when hell freezes over pigs fly and a cow jump over the moon amma like u

A che pro disegnare l'Impossibile? Perché è la verità, forse velata e mascherata, ma eterna.

Every night she bore witness to what she could never have. It wasn't living. It was torture.

Curious. (You know, if curious means "impossible" or "freaky" or…"indelibly awesome.") And now my head feels all full of moonlight or starlight or something. Or snow. My head feels like a snow globe that's been shaken, and glitter is swirling around in it like unmoored stars.

It was impossible of course, but when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming?

What happened fifteen years ago? What power could erase a name from the minds of the world? Lazlo wanted to go and find out. That was his dream, daring and magnificent: to go there, half across the world, and solve the mysteries for himself. It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming?

Are you trying to get run over by a cab?" "Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.

I realized I'd been on pins and needles waiting to see how he'd react to being penned up again. I'll never understand that. How can I be on pins and needles and not even know it? It sounds like a thing that shouldn't exist in the world at all, but there it is. It's discouraging to be in the middle of a life that's impossible to explain.

Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ...

A prophetic world that can never come true.

Well, that's where I fall down. I can't imagine a bean. I could never make up a story to save my life.

But to learn to live, to learn it from oneself and by oneself, all alone, to teach oneself to live ("I would like to learn to live finally"), is that not impossible for a living being? Is it not what logic itself forbids? To live, by definition, is not something one learns. Not from oneself, it is not learned from life, taught by life. Only from the other and by death. In

The great stumbling-block is not the habit itself, it is the belief in the impossibility of overcoming it. How can a man overcome a bad habit so long as he is convinced that it is impossible? How can a man be prevented from overcoming it when he knows that he can, and is determined to do it?

It was the Lord who knew of the impossibility every parent in that room faced: how to prepare the child for the day when the child would be despised and how to create in the child - by what means? - a stronger antidote to this poison than one had found for oneself.

He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.

If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.

You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it.

It is in vain to stone the sky, no matter how big the rock is.

Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'