Quotes About Inaccessibility

Siempre he pertenecido a lo que no está donde estoy y a lo que no he podido ser nunca.

Fifteen and a half years as incontestable, a continent he'd never visit, a staircase he'd never climb.

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.

El otro, como otro, reviste fácilmente ese carácter maravilloso e inaccesible, pero él a solas consigo, experimenta para sí ese vacío que está en su corazón.

It was a nightmare I could never really define, to have so many people packed around me and not be able to communicate with any of them unless they felt like it.

Everyone hates the best clubs, it is as simple as that.

No, you are not the nameless master of the world, the one on whom history had lost its hold, the one who no longer felt the rain falling, who did not see the approach of night. You are no longer the inaccessible, the limpid, the transparent one. You are afraid, you are waiting. You are waiting, on Place Clichy, for the rain to stop falling.

You are comprised of a million tiny locks. There's no master key to be found, encased in the plush velvet heart, no matter how desperately you ask someone to reach in and grope around. No matter how hard you try to find it.

I suppose I could call her . . . but for some reason these days dialing seven let alone eleven numbers feels like an infinite stretch. The phone's right in front of me but it's out of reach. When it rings at four AM I don't answer it. All I have to do is extend my hand but I can't run that far. Sleep never really arrives. Not even rest. There's no satisfaction anymore.

There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world not constructed for us. So much the better. The answers to moral dilemmas are not lying out there, waiting to be discovered. They reside, like the kingdom of God, within us -- the most difficult and inaccessible spot for any discovery or consensus.

The invulnerable, matchless and exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, nobody can touch them and there is no fear or guilt in overexposing opulence and fortune.( "Keeping up with the Joneses")

Nobody who wasn't down there

I like being the girl nobody can have.

Mme. Chantelouve would never realize the ideal he had fashioned for himself, the tantalizing features, the agile, wild animal body, the melancholy and ardent bearing, which he had dreamed. Indeed, the mere fact of knowing the unknown rendered her less desirable, more vulgar. Accessibility killed the chimera.

Indeed, the mere fact of knowing the unknown rendered her less desirable, more vulgar. Accessibility killed the chimera.

I'm most fascinated by remote places and lonely islands, which are also the hardest places to reach.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.

Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.