Impossible Quotes: Embracing the Unimaginable

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart"

John Heywood, Dramatist

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants"

Arnold Newman, Photographer

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try"

Alexander the Great, Leader

"I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"No obligation to do the impossible is binding"

Cicero, Philosopher

"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"

John F. Kennedy, President

"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"And it's impossible for me to read Henry James"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever"

William J. Clinton, President

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

"The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

"Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"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, Revolutionary

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

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