65 Quotes On The Impossible

In a world where limitations often seem insurmountable, the allure of the impossible has always captivated the human spirit. These moments of defying what is deemed unachievable aren't just rare occurrences; they are the sparks that ignite innovation, transformation, and hope. Our fascination with overcoming obstacles is beautifully encapsulated in words of wisdom from thinkers, dreamers, and doers. In this blog post, we delve into a carefully curated collection of 65 quotes that inspire us to rethink boundaries. Whether you're seeking motivation to tackle a difficult project, encouragement to follow your dreams, or simply a reminder that the impossible is often just a step away from reality, these quotes offer profound insights and timeless inspiration. Join us as we explore the intersection of aspiration and possibility, where the impossible becomes an invitation rather than a deterrent.

1. “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” - Shel Silverstein

2. “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

3. “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

4. “Whoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing Jell-O to a tree.” - John Candy

5. “Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.” - Robert G. Ingersoll

6. “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

7. “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

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

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

10. “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

11. “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

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. “When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.” - Henry Ford

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

16. “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

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. “His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was gorgeous.” - Maryam Schonbeck

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. “Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.” - Charles Kingsley

25. “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

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

27. “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

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

29. “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.

30. “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.” - Carol Rifka Brunt

31. “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” - Agatha Christie

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

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

34. “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

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

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

37. “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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “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

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

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

43. “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

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

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

46. “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

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

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

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

50. “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

51. “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

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

53. “...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

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

55. “You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible” - Hermann Hesse

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. “I Will Never Stop Trying To Fly, Because I'm Not Convinced That Anything Is Impossible!” - Matt Scott

58. “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

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

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

61. “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

62. “But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible” - Adina Rishe Gewirtz

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

64. “In the world of miracles, you ask the impossible.” - Gavriil Stiharul

65. “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