Top 100 Quotes About Impossibility
#1. In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
Benjamin Graham
#2. A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being.
Rajneesh
#3. The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Jean De La Bruyere
#4. Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E.F. Schumacher
#5. Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.
Loren Eiseley
#6. You're in love with impossibility
Sophocles
#7. You want to hire # entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers
the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.
Gurbaksh Chahal
#8. Go for the impossible and you shall find out that it is possible! Impossibility is the fabrication of the coward and weak minds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Waiting for Godot ... has achieved a theoretical impossibility - a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.
Vivian Mercier
#10. The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.
George Jung
#11. We've got a war about to be unleashed here-one that I'm going to die for. One where you and I are an impossibility. So I don't get to tell you that I love you. And you don't get to look at me like that. - Daniel
Frankie Rose
#12. Possible impossibility emerges
From an impossible possibility,
Or possibly, impossible possibility
Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.
Dejan Stojanovic
#13. The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.
David Foster Wallace
#14. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.
Carol Goodman
#15. Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one.
Minae Mizumura
#16. Again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.
Italo Calvino
#17. Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.
Thomas Lennon
#18. The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.
Franz Kafka
#19. Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.
Smith Wigglesworth
#21. He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.
Edmund Wilson
#22. The shape of your dreams will not hold if you believe that disbelief is the mending glue. You will only turn back to see the pieces of your dreams if you have the impossibility mindset.
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.
David Foster Wallace
#24. If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable
Ilyas Kassam
#25. The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Emil Cioran
#26. Brainstorm and make impossible possible. Make contradictions realistic. As if a contradiction is the other name of impossibility? Or simply impossible when contradicted becomes possible.
Priyavrat Thareja
#27. The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled.
Wilfred Trotter
#28. It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.
Elizabeth McCracken
#29. To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
Virginia Woolf
#30. Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#31. He was gazing right into her eyes, as he said this, seemingly imparting something of the impossibility of connections when one is always on the move.
Jojo Moyes
#32. The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?
Jonathan Franzen
#33. The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#34. There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.
Steve Allen
#35. The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.
Wolfgang Ostwald
#36. The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
Diane Arbus
#37. When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
Anne Lamott
#38. Apparently falling slowly is a scientific impossibility. Falling means that you're not in control, doesn't it? I should've considered that.
Victoria Dahl
#39. And far away in goddamn L.A. or Madison Avenue is the prick who decided that Skittles would sell more quickly if they promised Jalens they would taste the fucking rainbow which is like a complete fucking impossibility and even if it wasn't who said a rainbow would even taste good you know?
Sergio De La Pava
#40. My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.
John Updike
#41. Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.
John Stewart Bell
#42. Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.
Wes Fesler
#43. Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Annie Dillard
#44. Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
Andy Hargreaves
#45. The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,
Stewart Stafford
#47. The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment."
"What is it?"
"Impossibility.
Alexandre Dumas
#49. I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied logic and is unaware of the impossibility.
Sarah Caudwell
#50. Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#51. [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...
Queen Victoria
#52. I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.
Alice Winocour
#53. If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
Auberon Herbert
#54. Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#56. Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn't have. Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#58. If it is an impossibility, it is the thing we have to ask. If it is not an impossible thing, it is not a real disturbance. God will do the absolutely impossible.
Oswald Chambers
#59. The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#60. A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
Geena Davis
#61. Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.
Richard Appignanesi
#62. An unbreakable code is a mathematical impossibility! He knows that!
Dan Brown
#63. GOD Can Use ANYTHING To Do ANYTHING.
Cyc Jouzy
#64. If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.
Ben Jonson
#66. The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, and worry becomes an impossibility.
Oswald Chambers
#67. There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable
Charles Dickens
#68. If you see it's impossible,
you may use others' eyes.
Toba Beta
#69. Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#70. You will find that the dullest, most functionally illiterate mental mushroom has a very definite, very "scientific" view on one thing: the impossibility of any kind of psychic phenomena.
Simon
#71. I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.
Jacques Lacan
#72. The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
#73. Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.
Ron Brown
#75. Anger is needed to leave, to walk. That doesn't come from outside. In the hollow of the belly the pain of being here, the impossibility of remaining where you are, of being buried alive, of simply staying.
Frederic Gros
#76. They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle.
Embee
#77. So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
Mahatma Gandhi
#78. Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.
Thomas A Kempis
#80. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Charles Bukowski
#81. The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.
Steve Hagen
#82. The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon felt the impossibility of such a reconciliation.
Leo Tolstoy
#83. Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.
Aubrey De Grey
#84. The happy life is impossible without finding an answer to the question "why am I here? What am doing here?
Sunday Adelaja
#86. A perception of impossibility should never go unchallenged.
Wes Fesler
#87. The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
Pankaj Mishra
#88. The possibility of an alternative love story is a reminder that the life we are leading is only one of a myriad of possible lives, and it is the impossibility of leading them all that plunges us into sadness.
Alain De Botton
#89. Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.
Carew Papritz
#90. Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways,"7 the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.
James MacDonald
#91. Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other
Is fed with the necessity of seeing each other
It is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
Alisa Valdes
#92. Impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love.
Sue Monk Kidd
#93. I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.
Tim Cahill
#94. Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.
Karl Barth
#95. There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
Florence Nightingale
#96. A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.
Satoshi Kanazawa
#97. The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.
Graham Swift
#98. Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#99. This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The impossibility of the old version's vanishing.
Sue Miller
#100. Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we've given them permission to be impossible.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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