Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Set reasonable goals; not something vague and unrealistic like "I want to be super-model skinny." I always had visions of very thin… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you.” — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe Copy Share Image
Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those who see the impossible as unattainable are destined to reside in mediocrity” — Mark W Boyer Devlyn Lycurg Copy Share Image
Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
No matter how impossible, unattainable, or unimaginable something may seem..if it's meant to be, it'll be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking,… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The truth is unattainable...It will always be shrouded in fog. Though you reach through the murk and the gloom to grasp something,… — Persona 4 Copy Share Image
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I think my appeal is that I've always tried to stay very grounded to my fans and to be accessible - not… — Marisa Miller Copy Share Image
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I sung from an early age and I was always given nice parts in school musicals, but I definitely wasn't the golden… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When you fall in love with favourite movie stars, it's not because they're movie stars and unattainable, but because they show you… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls. — Lorde Copy Share Image
There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment.… — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Perfection is the lowest standard out there because it is unattainable. Be the best you can but don’t try to be someone… — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
