64 Impossible Quotes Analyzed

In a world where challenges often seem insurmountable, finding inspiration in the words of others can be a powerful motivator. The seemingly "impossible" has been a topic of fascination for centuries, underpinning countless tales of perseverance, innovation, and triumph. Our curated collection of the top 64 impossible quotes invites you to delve deep into these words of wisdom, understanding not just their surface meaning but the profound insights they offer into human resilience and creativity. Whether you're seeking a spark to ignite your next big idea or simply looking for a reminder that limits are often self-imposed, join us in exploring these timeless quotes and the rich, motivational lessons they impart.

1. “Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!” - Lewis Carroll

2. “Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. “We are *all* we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said – it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean...” - Walter de la Mare

4. “I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better...I have wanted the impossible...” - Rachilde

5. “Only if you are possible, everything will be possible.” - Santosh Kalwar

6. “The impossible becomes possible if only your mind believes it.” - Chris Bradford

7. “Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.” - Rod Serling

8. “Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.” - Victor Hugo

9. “The uncreative will always waste their energies on the impossible. Be unable to recognize the boundaries, how much of the spiritual the objects can bear and assume.” - Carl Einstein

10. “He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!” - Charles Baudelaire

11. “And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.” - H.H. Munro

12. “There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.” - Douglas Adams

13. “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” - Karl Lagerfeld

14. “You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!” - Ezra Taft Benson

15. “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” - Sigmund Freud

16. “Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible” - Cherie Carter-Scott

17. “How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him; or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.” - George Orwell

18. “All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.” - Pearl S. Buck

19. “We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.” - Paul Auster

20. “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” - Arthur Conan Doyle

21. “Ethan, I love you. Don’t leave me. I can’t do this without you.If there was moonlight, I could have seen his face. But there was no moon, not now, and the only light came from the fire, still frozen, surrounding me on every side. The sky was empty, absolutely black. There was nothing. I had lost everything tonight.I sobbed until I couldn’t breathe and my fingers slipped through his, knowing I would never feel those fingers in my hair again.Ethan.” - Kami Garcia

22. “To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.” - Criss Jami

23. “Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.” - Jodi Picoult

24. “My dear, just because something seems implausible doesn't make it impossible. Think about how long people believed the world was flat.” - Angela Henry

25. “How could you love somebody who had killed you?” - Toba Beta

26. “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

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

28. “Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.” - Mike Norton

29. “Only the impossible is worth doing.” - Akong Rinpoche

30. “The word 'impossible' ain’t in my dictionary.” - Jessica Maria Tuccelli

31. “Elizabeth's barreness and advanced age--a double symbol of hopelessness--became the means by which God would announce to the world that nothing is impossible for Him.” - Swindoll Charles R.

32. “Impossible is Nothing.” - Sumit Gavel

33. “There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.” - China Miéville

34. “What you can't comprehend within your thoughts will be impossible to make real within your world.” - Steven Redhead

35. “Yes, impossible. But do not dread, impossibility is just another measure of difficulty. The skills of dwargens and flillows sometimes match the impossible..." - Dwenzuak the dwargen” - T. William Watts

36. “The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” - Walter Bagehot

37. “Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.” - Sergei Lukyanenko

38. “It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible.  Why?  Because innately we know that nothing's impossible.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

39. “Impossible is Nothing,” it said. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” - Elna Baker

40. “It is natural to feel helpless when attempting the impossible.” - George Hammond

41. “The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.” - Margaret Mitchell

42. “Brainstorm and make impossible possible. Make contradictions realistic. As if a contradiction is the other name of impossibility? Or simply impossible when contradicted becomes possible.” - Priyavrat Thareja

43. “You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo.” - Osayi Osar-Emokpae

44. “I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.” - Dejan Stojnaovic

45. “To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.” - Dejan Stojanovic

46. “Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

49. “It's impossible to live without hurting others.” - Jun Mochizuki

50. “The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

51. “God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.” - Frederick Buechner

52. “Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.” - Bob Goff

53. “With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.” - Juliet Marillier

54. “...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he’d become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration.” - Paul Hoffman

55. “They did not know it was impossible so they did it” - Mark Twain

56. “The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.” - Neal Shusterman

57. “The idea isn't to do the impossible. The idea is to show the world that if one man can do the impossible, then maybe the rest of the world can do what's possible.” - Jonathan Malley

58. “Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.” - Janette Rallison

59. “La sua vita era ancora troppo breve, per sapere che non c'è cosa più imminente dell'impossibile, e che quanto dobbiamo sempre prevedere è l'imprevisto.” - Victor Hugo

60. “When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

61. “Unconditional love, is love, regardless anything; attainable or impossible.” - Anthony Liccione

62. “The world is full of zanies and fools, who don't believe in sensible rules, and won't believe what sensible people say. And because such daft and dewy-eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes, impossible things are happening every day.” - Rogers Hammerstein's Cinderella

63. “It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.” - Roald Dahl

64. “She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!” - Philip Pullman