He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his death-world with its hidden gift of life. But that life was a deeply ambiguous life, a conjurer's trick, a crafty illusion based on an accidental property of the retina, which retained an image for a fraction of a second after the image was no longer present. On this frail fact was erected the entire structure of the cinema, that colossal confidence game. The animated cartoon was a far more honest expression of the cinematic illusion than the so-called realistic film, because the cartoon reveled in its own illusory nature, exulted in the impossible--indeed it claimed the impossible as its own, exalted it as its own highest end, found in impossibility, in the negation of the actual, its profoundest reason for being. The animated cartoon was nothing but the poetry of the impossible--therein lay its exhilaration and its secret melancholy. For this willful violation of the actual, while it was an intoxicating release from the constriction of things, was at the same time nothing but a delusion, an attempt to outwit mortality. As such it was doomed to failure. And yet it was desperately important to smash through the constriction of the actual, to unhinge the universe and let the impossible stream in, because otherwise--well, otherwise the world was nothing but an editorial cartoon.

Steven Millhauser

Greatness does not come from trying to achieve the possible.

Constance Friday

Impossible? Utopic? Sure! But for how long? Can any human endeavor be eternally impossible or utopic ? A time factor should be integrated to every affirmation of utopia, or else the people affirming that would only be affirming that they are not the ones who can make it happen.

Haroutioun Bochnakian

Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history

Sunday Adelaja

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

The impossible is what we achieve through art.

Eirene Evripidou

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Karl Lagerfeld

People are tired of being told that it's possible... It's time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration.

Israelmore Ayivor

Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.

Vironika Tugaleva

Never give up in life, give your whole hearted try to every challenge coming your way even though the challenge seems impossible and much beyond your reach and potential.

Pravin Agarwal

We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Reasonably speaking, we can see the cross as entirely possible. But in considering Easter, we see an empty tomb as entirely impossible. And is it possible that God had to do the impossible to finally get our attention?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do I dare believe such an absurdly outrageous story that a man would die, lay lifeless in some tomb for three days and then somehow live again? Yet, if I dare to consider it, is that not exactly what I so desperately desire for this lifeless life of mine? And is Easter God’s tenderly outrageous way of telling me that that is exactly what I can have?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am pressed to admit that I don’t have the capacity to understand the bloodied horrors of a cross and the wild exhilaration of an empty tomb. But at the point that I think I completely understand God, I have at that very point humanized Him and in that very action I have lost Him. Therefore, I much prefer to simply marvel.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A god of the ‘possible’ is no God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

With God, the word ‘impossible’ is itself impossible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It is impossible to come to God and not experience changes in your life

Sunday Adelaja

There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.

Ikechukwu Izuakor

Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.

Amit Ray

To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable

Ilyas Kassam

It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.

Laini Taylor

It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

Kristin Hannah

Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only needed a light ")

Erik Pevernagie

His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex. Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human.To Knight, it all felt impossible. His engagement with the written word might have been the closest he could come to genuine human encounters. The stretch of days between thieving raids allowed him to tumble into the pages, and if he felt transported he could float in bookworld, undisturbed, for as long as he pleased.

Michael Finkel

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But even a vessel pulsates, beats and pumps in ecstasy and in rage!I wonder are the way we are because we are trying to protect ourselves from the “monsters” not realizing this fear that we are harboring inside us is turning us into goblins and ghouls ourselves? Not even a heart caged inside of ribs can be protected. Who can really be to blame for your broken heart?In-turn we find our own vices , our own ways to cope, ways that we petrify our bodies our lives in such a fashion so we can stop and notice the stars sparkling in the sky everything and everyone that embodies love YOUR LOVE… and every spec dancing in our own light, specs we failed to see because of our own faults.

QuietStormPoet

People with victim mentality find it impossible to depend on themselves to solve in dealing with problems and tend to wait for savior

Sunday Adelaja

Because I have ‘chosen’ to see something as impossible, there’s a good chance that it’s not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I wanna die I may be awesome that I fear nothing. So I can do anything in this earth. Cause I am about to die. And If I start to do anything in this earth, the worst can be, I will die. This is the way I make impossibles possible.

Arefin Bashar Arif

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thoroughness or any special, strong interest, but rather, to the extent that weakness in thinking was not the cause, because of sorrow and fear – sorrow, because the present was so sad for me that I thought I could not leave it before it resolved itself into happiness; fear, because, like my fear of the slightest action in the present, I also considered myself, in view of my contemptible, childish appearance, unworthy of forming a serious, responsible opinion of the great, manly future which usually seemed so impossible to me that every short step forward appeared to me to be counterfeit and the next step unattainable.

Franz Kafka

If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Without the fear of God it is impossible to say ‘No’ to temptations and evil

Sunday Adelaja

Fear totally obliterates a person, it makes people tolerate what is impossible to handle

Sunday Adelaja

If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

GOD begins where you end and takes you beyond where you thought was impossible

TemitOpe Ibrahim

Only if you are possible, everything will be possible.

Santosh Kalwar

Magic is not doing the impossible. It's about doing what seems impossible.

Mandar Gogate

It is impossible for an uneducated man to rebel.

Paul Bamikole

My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it’s about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own.

Dejan Stojanovic

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

How can you be a lover of loveand not be a lover of God?It is impossible.

Kamand Kojouri

Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems impossible, Faith makes it possible.

Gift Gugu Mona

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