Top 100 Quotes About Impossibility
#2. Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.
Greg L. Bahnsen
#3. One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change ...
Diane Ravitch
#4. The workers of Europe ought to henceforth declare themselves as a class a human impossibility ... they ought to inaugurate within the European beehive an age of a great swarming-out such as has never been seen before
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.
Aristotle.
#6. We stood
the dead child and the living
on either side of my father, both wanting the same thing. To have him to ourselves forever. To please us both was an impossibility.
Alice Sebold
#7. It was about the inestimable burden of their lives: the work, the houses, the friendships, the marriages, the children, as if all the things they'd wanted and worked for had cemented the impossibility of any sort of happiness. The
Ann Patchett
#9. You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery - and there's not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
Bill Bonner
#10. There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.
Mark Twain
#11. Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.
Thomas Hardy
#12. A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.
Nils Heribert-Nilsson
#13. The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility.
Chelsie Shakespeare
#14. Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
John Wooden
#15. What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.
Sri Aurobindo
#16. This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.
Jack Kent Cooke
#17. I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.
George MacDonald
#18. With Quinn, safety wasn't even an illusion. It was an impossibility
Alyssa Day
#19. Being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible for language to reach (this is also due to the impossibility of experiencing of re-experiencing anything through language), Bataille still expresses it in words. (Mishima on Bataille)
Georges Bataille
#20. Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.
L.M. Montgomery
#21. The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
Jessica Valenti
#22. It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'
Albert Camus
#23. The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?
Twiggy
#24. Part of the special challenge of being a startup is the near impossibility of having your idea, company, or product be noticed by anyone, let alone a competitor.
Eric Ries
#25. Nick commenced a monologue explaining the impossibility of such a phenomenon: the subordination of content to the aesthetics of language in Arabic literature, the dominance of panegyrics and eulogies as an art form, etc.
Rabih Alameddine
#26. Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
Immanuel Kant
#27. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.
Stephenie Meyer
#28. There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
David Buss
#29. No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service from the well-beloved, and no service is so repulsive that love cannot make it delightful and easy.
W. Somerset Maugham
#30. Everyone has the right to do his own thing. This slogan is as crass as it is silly. If it were followed by everyone resolutely, society itself would be an impossibility. No one would have any true rights protected, because it at any given moment my rights could trample your rights
R.C. Sproul
#31. I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.
John Bevere
#32. Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.
Edith Cavell
#33. Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible
Adedayo Kingjerry
#34. Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.
Derek R. Audette
#35. Before Cam, music had been an escape, passion, a daydream, love, an impossibility.
Lauren Kate
#36. The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.
Paul Di Filippo
#37. That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.
Rollo May
#38. In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.
Guillermo Del Toro
#39. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible
Thomas A Kempis
#40. The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens.This is certainly true,but it proves nothing against the heavens,because heaven means precisely:the impossibility of crows.
Franz Kafka
#41. Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come back to the same basic thing: the impossibility of living without repression.
Ernest Becker
#44. In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
#45. In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.
Dorothy Richardson
#46. Be faithful to God in little and in big things, and your impossibility will become a possibility
Sunday Adelaja
#47. Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
Guy Debord
#48. The barriers of impossibility, which close off the field of reality to our dreams and desires, were shattered, and his thoughts drifted exuberantly through the unattainable, fired by their own movement.
Marcel Proust
#49. I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.
Buju Banton
#50. This impossibility has happened and therefore isn't impossible.
Steve Merrick
#51. The biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
John Galsworthy
#52. While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
Lee De Forest
#53. If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?
Cathleen Schine
#54. The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.
Amy Ray
#55. Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.
Harold Ramis
#56. The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering
#57. When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
John Steinbeck
#58. It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.
Josh Garrels
#59. Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logical
impossibility.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#61. The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
James Wolfe
#62. If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
Henri Poincare
#64. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#65. I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
Angus Buchan
#67. God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling ...
Leo Tolstoy
#68. Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
Dejan Stojanovic
#69. I feel clobbered by the impossibility of translating into words as much of this enormous world we live in with its subtly complex and sprawling Periodic Table of emotions. To quote Freddie Mercury, I want it all.
David Mitchell
#70. Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#71. 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.
Charles Bukowski
#72. We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury
#73. Alone in the hallway, Celaena watched the shadows cast by the torches. It hadn't been the mere impossibility of a relationship with Ilias that had made her pull away.
No; it was the memory of Sam's face that had stopped her from kissing him.
Sarah J. Maas
#74. We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
Agnes Repplier
#75. Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences.
Toba Beta
#76. Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
Nicholas Sparks
#77. An impossibility is just a possibility you don't understand yet
Matt Haig
#78. My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else can I express the words from the depths.
C. G. Jung
#79. In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
Albert Camus
#80. Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Sri Aurobindo
#81. It was a blur," people say. What they really mean is the impossibility of anyone truly entering such an experience from outside, the futility of explanation.
Diana Gabaldon
#82. Cooties, doesn't show possibility shows impossibility.
Deyth Banger
#83. Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.
Philip Guston
#84. Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
Elie Wiesel
#85. However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
Iris Murdoch
#87. Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.
Michael Chabon
#89. Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason,
but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise.
Toba Beta
#90. I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.
Keith Jarrett
#91. Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
Sri Aurobindo
#92. The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.
Ilana Mercer
#93. I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility
H.G.Wells
#94. New inventions, new machines, new methods of transportation and intercourse are making over the whole scene of action year by year. It is an absolute impossibility to educate the child for any fixed station in life.
John Dewey
#95. An eagle can catch a fish in the ocean of impossibility because he pursues and focuses on only one fish.
Debasish Mridha
#96. You owe your attacker no debt, Miss Steele. It is, as I have proven, a logical impossibility? Promise to try?
Lyndsay Faye
#97. 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.
James Frey
#98. Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
Douglas Coupland
#100. A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.
Tim O'Brien
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
