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Impossibility Quotes (page 23)

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. Albert Camus
Thomas Hardy quote: "They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How..."
They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. Thomas Hardy
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imaginedfuture, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love ora passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convincedthat even the smallest particle of the surrounding world wascharged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, andone would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind-loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by thehigh, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, somany and... Mark Strand
It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never heard of again. Without a free press and the right of assembly, it is impossible not merely to appeal to outside opinion, but to bring a mass movement into being, or even to make your intentions known to your adversary. Is there a Gandhi in Russia at this moment? And if there is, what is he accomplishing? George Orwell
Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways. Shinichi Suzuki
It is impossible? now, at this point in the long journey of human culture? to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautifu? Howard Barker
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
Virginia Woolf quote: "Nevertheless, the fact remained, it was impossible to dislike..."
Nevertheless, the fact remained, it was impossible to dislike any one if one looked at them. Virginia Woolf
Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. What is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? Ursula K. Le Guin
How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself? Anne Frank
Arthur Symons quote: "I had had my dreams of Venice. But nothing that I had dreamed..."
I had had my dreams of Venice. But nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found. Arthur Symons
Woody Allen quote: "It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly..."
It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off. Woody Allen
Let me say, with the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love. It is impossible to thing of an authentic revolutionary without this quality. Che Guevara
But was it not true that there were people, certain individuals, whom one found it impossible to picture dead, precisely because they were so vulgar? That was to say: they seemed so fit for life, so good at it, that they would never die, as if they were unworthy of the consecration of death. Thomas Mann
That life isn't fair?" Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens. Nicholas Sparks

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