Quotes with impossibility

  • The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

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  • James Baldwin Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Annie Dillard Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Anita Brookner The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • E. M. Cioran The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Dorothea Brande The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Mark Twain There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ray Bradbury We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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