Impossibility Quotes
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The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.
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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.
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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.
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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.
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For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
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At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.
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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.'
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The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
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A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.
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There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
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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.
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The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.
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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.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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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.
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The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.
