#impossibility

[sluggoonthestreet]

Philomena checks on whether it’s time to take flight or if this is just a regular possible day.

[rubypomegranates]

“There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.”

Yukio Mishima “The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea”

[thirdity]

The new, because it cannot take its place in history, is also that which is most ancient: an unhistorical occurrence to which we are called upon to answer as if it were the impossible, the invisible — that which has always long since disappeared beneath ruins.

Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster

[thepersonalwords]

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[startrekvsfaceapp]

[philosophybits]

In the face of the impossible ... they submit themselves at once. The impossible – meaning the stone wall? Which stone wall? Well, of course, the laws of nature, the conclusions of the natural sciences and mathematics.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

[richelle-goodrich]

"In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the definition. im·pos·si·ble [im-pos-uh-buhl] Old definition: Unable to be done. New definition: Unable to be ignored until done."