Impossibility Quotes

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That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the… — Sue Monk Kidd
Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility… — Bertrand Russell
Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. — Dan Brown
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at… — Nicole Krauss
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell
God forgive me everything!â€™ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling... — Leo Tolstoy
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He… — Anne Lamott
When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A… — Elizabeth Chandler
Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be… — Bill Bryson
Menoeceus is a great name. (Astrid) For an old man or a feminine hygiene product. Not for my son. And next time I get to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it… — Jose Saramago
She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no… — Maggie O'Farrell
When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you. — Marguerite Duras
Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly… — Craig Clevenger
Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility. — Stephenie Meyer
In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total… — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what… — Albert Camus
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,… — Virginia Woolf

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