Impossibility Quotes

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land

“People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable”
― Ilyas Kassam

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Possible is more a matter of attitude,
A matter of decision, to choose
Among the impossible possibilities,
When one sound opportunity
Becomes a possible solution.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“As long as there is one person suffering an injustice; as long as one person is forced to bear an unnecessary sorrow; as long as one person is subject to an undeserved pain, the worship of a God is a demoralizing humiliation.

As long as there is one mistake in the universe; as long as one wrong is permitted to exist; as long as there is hatred and antagonism among mankind, the existence of a God is a moral impossibility.

Ingersoll said: 'Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.”
― Joseph Lewis, An Atheist Manifesto

“As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.”
― George Santayana

“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim”
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

“We can imagine the impossible, provided we do not imagine it in perfect detail and all at once.”
― David Kellogg Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds

“Ah, it is impossible."

"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!”
― E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril

“There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.”
― Ogwo David Emenike

“Oh, don’t worry, I am perfectly aware of the fantasy involved here, but what we want is almost never exempt from the impossible. That barrier has very little meaning for me these days. Given what’s happened, the impossible is just a blind spot that dissolves if we move our heads fast enough. History seems to show that the impossible is probably the most likely thing of all.”
― Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet

“Based on the law of probability
Everything is possible because
The sheer existence of possibility
Confirms the existence
Of impossibility.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside

“I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.”
― William Golding, The Spire

“If you see it's impossible,
you may use others' eyes.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Time travel..will never be impossible forever.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Possible impossibility emerges
From an impossible possibility,
Or possibly, impossible possibility
Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Creating. It fills me with... I don't know." He frowned. "It is as if I am standing in the brightest light I've ever seen."
"That is how creating feels," Victor said, a bittersweet ache in his chest. Apparently, he'd dared to hope after all. "When. you make something, it gives you a sense of pride. Accomplishment." Then, an idea. "This is yours. You can do with it whatever you want. Make whatever you wish."
"Whatever I wish... What if I wish for impossible things?"
"Then you are doing it right. It always seems impossible when you first start.”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

“Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason,
but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.”
― Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

“Easilier shall a little ant bib this ocean dry, than shall we in this taking perform our enterprise.”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

“Possibility is a concubine of reality, but impossibility is the queen of imagination.”
― Rao Umar Javed, Distorted Denouement

“Cherish those brief moments when the mind wanders into the Realm of Impossibility because times like that are when the most amazing Ideas are born.”
― Kelly Iyogun

“We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The secret to doing the impossible lies in not believing in the impossible. And knowing that doubt is what wakes you up when you’re living the dream. The dream of being able to stand when others fall. The dream of being a beacon in the night for those afraid of the dark. The dream of knowing the value and virtue of control in a galaxy of chaos. The dream of being worthy. And if you can banish doubt, you can dream with your eyes open.”
― Marc Bernardin

“Life, according to Tarde, is the search for the impossible by way of the useless, which is what Omar Khayyám would have said, if he had said it.”
― Fernando Pessoa