Quotes About Impossibility

I am the impossibility of desiring the person you pity. And the petal of the Easter lily—

El dolor puro y completo es tan imposible como la dicha pura y completa".

Because more than anything, her mother had wanted to stand out; because more than anything, her father had wanted to blend in. Because those things had been impossible.

How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia's mother and father, because of her mother's and father's mothers and fathers. Because long ago, her mother had gone missing, and her father had brought her home. Because more than anything, her mother had wanted to stand out; because more than anything, her father had wanted to blend in. Because those things had been impossible.

A man who has not come up against the barrier of some physical impossibility that affects his whole life ( impotence, dyspepsia, asthma, imprisonment, etc.) does not know what suffering is. In fact, such causes bring him to a decision of renouncement: a despairing attempt to make a virtue out of what is, in any case, inevitable. Could anything be more contemptible?

Shakespeare a plagiarist Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness the impossibility the impossibility Nietzsche gone totally mad the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant.

I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

Losing is all that's left, I say. - Losing is all we've got left to lose, you say The impossibility of not telling, I cannot do otherwise, one can only tell otherwise, with always the same need to make sense of what you've lost, the need not to lose this feeling of losing, the need to feel yourself not losing this feeling that you are still losing the irreplaceable.

It may just be," he added, "that there is something fundamentally unworkable about government itself. As long as Homo sapiens terra is a wild animal, which he has always been and always will be until he evolves into something different in a million or so years, maybe a workable system of government is a political science impossibility, just as transmutation of elements was a physical-science impossibility as long as they tried to do it by chemical means.

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

Mandelbrot moved beyond dimensions 0,1,2,3…to a seeming impossibility: fractional dimensions. The notion is a conceptual high-wire act. For nonmathematicians it requires a willing suspension of disbelief. Yet it proves extraordinarily powerful.

But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could.

physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky, so they'll never know when one of their pals is flying.

Now, I don't know if you can appreciate this without actually knowing her, but getting Mrs. Stricker to laugh is like getting an octopus to stand up on two legs.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

And we will persist in chasing the impossible until we are no more.

You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.

There's nothing more pathetic than dreaming dreams you know can never come true.

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.