Top 100 Seems Impossible Quotes
#1. Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc - where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.
Amanda Ripley
#2. It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.
Bill Bryson
#3. 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
#4. The process of becoming is not of doing but simply an act of observing. The internal process has been designed in such a way that it seems impossible for you to sit quietly even for some time at one place.
Roshan Sharma
#5. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.
Adam Silvera
#6. I realize I'm crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.
Adam Silvera
#7. It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.
Nicholas Sparks
#8. It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.
Georges Bataille
#9. Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.
Korie Robertson
#10. The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
Alain De Botton
#11. Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
Michel De Montaigne
#12. I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.
Eddie Martinez
#13. If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all.
Immanuel Kant
#14. It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
Jennifer Armintrout
#16. It seems impossible to wheedle his way out of his impending death. No one has before him. But just as a young person feels invincible, he cannot bring himself to accept the looming train as he stands upon the tracks feeling the deep rumbling of the behemoth barreling straight toward him.
M. Starks
#17. Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.
Kara Goucher
#18. Everything seems impossible until you see success.
Ron Willingham
#19. What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.
Norman Vincent Peale
#20. Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new
Pam Brown
#21. The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
Orison Swett Marden
#23. When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
Rick Yancey
#24. My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.
Julia Glass
#25. Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.
James Franco
#26. I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#27. Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
Aaron Swartz
#28. Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.
Usher
#29. I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy to satisfy and no one notices or cares, nor does it make me happy, when loneliness surrounds me like water I've already drowned in without dying.
Francisco Goldman
#30. I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.
Nicholas Sparks
#31. Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems impossible; how can a man who has known love be capable of doing such things? A man who loves his wife, who loves his children goes on eating meat? Impossible.
Rajneesh
#32. Blessed are those who can find light in dark places, courageous enough to feel when it's time to reflect & hopeful enough to believe when all seems impossible. We don't have enough pioneers like this, and I wonder if it's because they were afraid to live and afraid to learn?
Nikki Rowe
#33. It seems impossible to believe that a girl not yet in her teens could fall in love, but I remember so vividly the moment I first laid eyes on him...
Lucinda Riley
#34. Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
Rich Cohen
#36. I just, I don't know, put up so many invisible walls between us when I was younger that it seems impossible to tear them down now.
Lindy Zart
#37. Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?
Abigail Reynolds
#38. PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO
Jared Leto
#39. Letting go is a hard, hard thing. Some days, it seems impossible. Stubbornness sets in, heels dig firmly into the dirt below us, and fingers refuse to uncurl from something so precious to one's heart even if by a centimeter. Other days, though, it's a fervent wish.
Heather Lyons
#41. When your friend is decomposing, surely you owe it to them to inhale their death. To do otherwise seems impossible prim.
Nick Harkaway
#42. Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.
Kris Rafferty
#43. Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.
Lucy Powell
#44. One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan
#45. That's the best part about being a kid. Nothing seems impossible until someone bigger and older tells you it is. I grew up in a lovely little world where nothing was too far out of reach if I wanted to work for it. I think I still live in that world.
Lindsey Stirling
#46. Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.
George Packer
#47. When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.
Marie Leszczynska
#48. In all my longing for a family and a home, I'd never quite been able to decide what they should have looked like. But this house looks and feels so right, so perfect, it seems impossible any other place would suit me half so well.
Lisa Kleypas
#50. it seems impossible for all things to be one.
Aristotle.
#51. Never give up in life, give your whole hearted try to every challenge coming your way even though the challenge seems impossible and much beyond your reach and potential.
Pravin Agarwal
#52. Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.
Tim Ferriss
#53. It's odd, though, what makes you think about the truth. It's so rarely involved in the events of your life. I quit thinking about the truth for a time then. Its finer points seems impossible to find among the facts.
Richard Ford
#54. Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
Bill Ayers
#55. I need to get you out of here," Buck said. "And I have no idea how." "Have you prayed?" "Constantly." "The Lord will make a way somehow." "It seems impossible right now, sir." "Yahweh is the God of the impossible," Tsion said.
Tim LaHaye
#56. In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.
Hannah Hurnard
#57. Much of depression's pain arises out of the recognition that what might make one feel better--human connection-- seems impossible in the midst of a paralyzing episode of depression. It is rather like dying from thirst while looking at a glass of water just beyond one's reach
David A. Karp
#58. Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
Catherine Helen Spence
#59. When the odds seem insurmountable and it seems impossible to overcome them, most people will give up.The true heroes in this world are those who don't give up in these times when things seem impossible to do.
Dave Brown
#61. When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.
Tony Robbins
#62. I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.
PJ Harvey
#63. On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what needs to be accepted. Of hoping for what seems impossible.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
#64. make every effort to test in isolation. If doing so seems impossible, then it's likely that your code should be decoupled.
Jeffrey Way
#65. Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What's good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what's beautiful, when the way back seems impossible.
Sharon E. Rainey
#66. It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.
Francesca Lia Block
#67. I still feel really hopeless sometimes. I don't like my job. And I've stopped thinking about finding another one. And, even though I hardly ever think about Sam anymore, it still seems impossible that I might have something like that again. A relationship, I guess.
Rainbow Rowell
#68. Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.
Hannah Arendt
#69. I can't see how I'll make it a year this way," he said.
"It seems impossible, I know. But when we're old and doddering, this year will seem like a blink.
Paula McLain
#70. Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
William Butler Yeats
#71. Daisy," he whispered, turning until she was tucked beneath him once more. "I didn't mean for this to happen." His fingers investigated the fragile angles of her face, the smiling curve of her lips. "But now it seems impossible that I held out as long as I did.
Lisa Kleypas
#72. Transformational tools enhance one's clarity, competence, compassion, and empower you to achieve anything that seems impossible to you and others.
Vishwas Chavan
#73. Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.
Shaggy
#74. The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
T. Harv Eker
#75. Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.
Stephenie Meyer
#76. Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice. 7.
Marcus Aurelius
#77. Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
John Bonifaz
#78. To please God ... to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness ... to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.
C.S. Lewis
#79. Life sucks, there's no way around that. But you never know when the good might come. Maybe it won't, but you shouldn't count it out. And besides, that's what makes us human, right? Even if it seems impossible, even when there is no point, we fight to the death with smiles on our faces.
Kyle West
#80. Everything seems impossible
And everything seems possible.
Dejan Stojanovic
#81. But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
Samuel Beckett
#82. There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.
John Shaw Billings
#83. What seems impossible is always possible. It's just the way you look at things that will make the difference!
Timothy Pina
#84. It seems impossible, in a big city like Paris, but you can waste hours looking for the right place to burn up a corpse.
Italo Calvino
#85. It seems impossible that she could have liked someone like Mitchell when there was someone like this guy in the world, someone tall and lanky, with tousled hair and startling green eyes and a speck of mustard on his chin, like the one small imperfection that makes the whole painting work somehow.
Jennifer E. Smith
#86. If you aren't willing to keep looking for light in the darkest of places without stopping, even when it seems impossible, you will never succeed.
Amelia Shepherd
#87. The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
Giles Foden
#88. I can imagine a life without you, but it seems impossible dreary, imperfect, unhappy.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#89. Which is to say that we all have dragons to slay in life. This one is mine. I hope that doing so will provide a model to others on how to find the bravery to be true to oneself, even if it means doing something that seems impossible.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#90. it seems impossible to talk of love and letting live, and if we are left to live, we are not usually loved.
Alain De Botton
#91. It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.
John Quincy Adams
#92. Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.
Frederick Lenz
#93. It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.
Calvin Coolidge
#94. The worst-case scenario always seems impossible until it actually happens.
R.C. Wade
#95. If your situation seems impossible at least look it straight in the eye.
Bryant McGill
#96. A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.
Michael Stuhlbarg
#97. It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
William Faulkner
#98. Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
Chris Martin
#99. I understand how families become estranged, not by design, but by embarrassment. You come to a point when so much time has passed that it seems impossible to make the first move
Michelle Richmond
#100. The probability that the Earth was created with such a perfect combination to sustain life seems almost impossible. So, in the grand scheme of the Universe, you might be one insignificant pin-prick, but with all things considered, you're also nothing short of a miracle
Becki Tedford
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