Quotes about Unattainable
You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
— John 7:34
What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
— John 7:36
Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.
— Oscar Wilde
She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a stray child, ragged and cold, with her nose pressed to a lighted window. A toy-store window, a bakery window, with fancy cakes and decorated cookies. Poverty prevents her entrance. These things are for other people; nothing for her.
— Margaret Atwood
Everyone wants something that they can't possibly have. And if they could have it, they'd discover that they didn't really want it all along.
— Seth Godin
She was too beautiful to excite me with the idea of accessibility.
— Graham Greene
You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
— Lewis Carroll
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.
— Edith Wharton
Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?
— Edith Wharton