yearning for the impossible Quotes

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

Sometimes you meet a really nice guy, but no matter how you try, you can't seem to make yourself want him. But that's not nearly as bad as when you meet the wrong guy, and you can't make yourself not want him. You feel hollow inside, just waiting and wishing and dreaming. You feel like every moment is leading to something so amazing that there's no name for it, and if you could just get there with him, it would be such a...relief. It would be all you'd ever need.

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.

You always want what you can’t have.

We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

My nostalgia is for the impossible.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.

Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.