Unobtainable Quotes

#1. In his hours alone, his mind wandered to a million possible outcomes, and he marveled at how long it had been since he had felt so preoccupied by a woman. It was because she was that rare thing, genuinely unobtainable. He should have given up days ago.

Jojo Moyes

#2. In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

John Burns

#3. You were the goddess I longed to worship. My unobtainable dream. The relationship I could never hope to have.

Tara Sue Me

#4. The pursuit of a set purpose by logical means is the way of tyranny; the pursuit of an unobtainable purpose by absurd means is the way of freedom.

Tom King

#5. We can't fathom what God has in store for us when He makes all creation new. Believe it by faith and share with those who still doubt that they, too, can be perfected in Heaven by turning to Christ and abandoning their unobtainable satisfaction on earth.

Billy Graham

#6. Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

Agyness Deyn

#7. Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

Bob Hartley

#8. Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm.

Erin O'Connor

#9. There is nothing so desirable as the unobtainable.

Hannah Mary Rothschild

#10. Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.

Marilyn Ferguson

#11. The whore, who said her name was Sandra, offered me delights unobtainable outside of Place Pigalle and Port Said. I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we had both overestimated our apathies, but not by much.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.

Claude Monet

#13. Paduk and all the rest wrote on steadily, but Krug's failure was complete, a baffling and hideous disaster, for he had been busy becoming an elderly man instead of learning the simple but now unobtainable passages which they, mere boys, had memorized.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.

Philippe Halsman

#15. Nothing is unobtainable to the sword.

Lord Dunsany

#16. Her body beckoned me. She was different, elusive, unobtainable. And my cock wanted unobtainable.

Pepper Winters

#17. The Swahili word safari means journey, it has nothing to do with animals, someone 'on safari' is just away and unobtainable and out of touch.

Paul Theroux

#18. but somehow when it's real, when it's your life . . . that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

John Green

#19. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

Eric Hoffer

#20. Souls dance undressed/ together/ and like loiterers/ on the fringes of a fair/ we ogle the unobtainable/ imagined mystery/ Yet away around on the far side/ like a stage door of a circus tent/ is a wide vent in the battlements/ where even elephants/ waltz thru
pg. 31// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#21. Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

Graham Greene

#22. I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.

Ashley Greene

#23. I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

Gabrielle Union

#24. With two hours until her mother picked her up, Janey was alone, woozy and heart-swollen in the downtown, wandering wet streets that gleamed as you would have them gleam in the sweet summer film of your life.

Wells Tower

#25. The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Robert Graves

#26. Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Sylvain Tesson

#27. Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!

Mehmet Murat Ildan