Unsolvable Problem Quotes

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

The world is very odd we see. We do not comprehend it; But in one fact we can all agree, God won’t and we can’t mend it.

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Never fight an inanimate object.

I don’t think its worth fighting for, and I don’t think we can get out. It’s the biggest damn mess.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

It appears to me one of those questions which present great inconveniences whichever way it is decided.

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Are we to continue to struggle, as so many good men struggled in the first dozen centuries of Christendom -- spilling oceans of blood, wasting mountains of treasure -- to achieve what is at bottom a logical absurdity, to accomplish something which, when accomplished, can avail us nothing, and which, if it could avail us anything, would condemn the nations of the world to never-ending bloodshed

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.