Impossible Quotes

“It is impossible to erase my choices.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“I have an ugliness it's impossible to love.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

“It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.”
― Roald Dahl, The Witches

“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
― Anthony Robbins

“She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!"

"You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated, deceived and abused. Their god was quick-tempered unreasonable, cruel, revengeful and dishonest. He was always promising but never performed. He wasted time in ceremony and childish detail, and in the exaggeration of what he had done. It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. He had solemnly promised the Jews that he would take them from Egypt to a land flowing with milk and honey. He had led them to believe that in a little while their troubles would be over, and that they would soon in the land of Canaan, surrounded by their wives and little ones, forget the stripes and tears of Egypt. After promising the poor wanderers again and again that he would lead them in safety to the promised land of joy and plenty, this God, forgetting every promise, said to the wretches in his power:—'Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and your children shall wander until your carcasses be wasted.' This curse was the conclusion of the whole matter. Into this dust of death and night faded all the promises of God. Into this rottenness of wandering despair fell all the dreams of liberty and home. Millions of corpses were left to rot in the desert, and each one certified to the dishonesty of Jehovah. I cannot believe these things. They are so cruel and heartless, that my blood is chilled and my sense of justice shocked. A book that is equally abhorrent to my head and heart, cannot be accepted as a revelation from God.

When we think of the poor Jews, destroyed, murdered, bitten by serpents, visited by plagues, decimated by famine, butchered by each, other, swallowed by the earth, frightened, cursed, starved, deceived, robbed and outraged, how thankful we should be that we are not the chosen people of God. No wonder that they longed for the slavery of Egypt, and remembered with sorrow the unhappy day when they exchanged masters. Compared with Jehovah, Pharaoh was a benefactor, and the tyranny of Egypt was freedom to those who suffered the liberty of God.

While reading the Pentateuch, I am filled with indignation, pity and horror. Nothing can be sadder than the history of the starved and frightened wretches who wandered over the desolate crags and sands of wilderness and desert, the prey of famine, sword, and plague. Ignorant and superstitious to the last degree, governed by falsehood, plundered by hypocrisy, they were the sport of priests, and the food of fear. God was their greatest enemy, and death their only friend.

It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god. He is without a redeeming feature. In the mythology of the world he has no parallel. He, only, is never touched by agony and tears. He delights only in blood and pain. Human affections are naught to him. He cares neither for love nor music, beauty nor joy. A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain, and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, and changeable, infamous and hideous:—such is the God of the Pentateuch.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.”
― Fridtjof Nansen

“There’s always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.”
― Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages

“No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence comes when you leave thoughts of imposibilities behind and live by the focus of faith and hope in the face of difficulty.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The limits of possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.”
― Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

“If you think it is possible, it will be possible. If you think it is impossible, the imposible will be possible. Whatever you think; whether posible or impossible will forever be possible to happen.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?”
― Christian D. Larson

“Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly.
When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling.
'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.”
― Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

“Sometimes, impossible just means you have to try harder. -Kara”
― S.M. Boyce, Treason

“But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible”
― Adina Rishe Gewirtz, Zebra Forest

“Unconditional love, is love, regardless anything; attainable or impossible.”
― Anthony Liccione

“When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Impossible it self says I'm possible.”
― Makayla Redmon

“In the world of miracles, you ask the impossible.”
― Gavriil Stiharul

“The universe is made up of courses of action we have no say in, but we have a say in who we are, and in those choices we make inside, even if outside, those choices seem impossible.”
― Dianna Hardy, The Last Dragon

“Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o'clock and they say "the kitchen is closed." For years I would hear this, and think, "damn, just a little too late, oh well, thank you, I guess it's Denny's again."

And then one day it hit me: kitchens don't close. Just as at home, at a certain point in the night, I stop using the kitchen--but at three in the morning, if I want to, I still have the ability to go downstairs and "re-open" the kitchen by turning on the stove and opening the refrigerator! Restaurants are not banks; at the stroke of ten an enormous airlock doesn't seal off the kitchen and render the preparation of food an utter impossibility./ No, kitchens can open and budgets are what certain people say they are.”
― Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

“When we face impossible odds, let us not look at the size of our problem; let us look at the size of our God.”
― Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

“When a man faces his death, Impossible is less than a barrier.”
― Supreeth

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.”
― Tommy Lasorda

“But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?”
― Fernando Pessoa