Quotes About Impossibility

The chapter ends by showing that nuclear war more closely approximates the model of torture than the model of conventional war because it is a structural impossibility that the populations whose bodies are used in the confirmation process can have exercised any consent over this use of their bodies.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

She saw now that she could not tell him about the books she had loved any more than she could make him see the palm trees swaying under a brilliant blue sky.

The whole complexion of things was suddenly changed. There could be no thought of a landing, not here at least

Sound like a promise that can never happen.

But still they turn from it, all of them, and bat their wings against their own impossible dreams.

With Quinn, safety wasn't even an illusion. It was an impossibility

Il y a une impossibilité tecnique à raconter le sublime. Soit on n'est pas intéressant, soit on est comique.

When I was a child, I wanted to grow taller than a certain standard set by our teacher. When I expressed that desire, my teacher asked me if I thought of myself as a Chiranjeevi. Since then, I have heard a number of people liken the very name 'Chiranjeevi' to impossible achievement.

I'd like to be two inches taller, but it just ain't happening.

Credo quia impossibile

We cannot road trip to Paris.

Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

To hope without hope, which would be wise, is impossible. —MARCEL PROUST, Les Plaisirs et les Jours

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly." -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

I wish... but if wishes were raindrops, we'd be in the middle of the fucking ocean.

What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself — if I want the impossible...

The truth is, you will never re-create third and 10, down by four, at Texas Stadium, in the fourth quarter, don't try.

El amor sólo puede nacer de la desesperación. El espiritu contra la naturaleza...el movimiento del espiritu hacia esa imposibilidad de comunicación es el amor.