Definition of Impossibility

Impossibility

The quality of being impossible; impracticability.

An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured.

Inability; helplessness.

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Impossibility Quotations

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas Kempis

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Voltaire

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Emile M. Cioran

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
Arnold H. Glasgow

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
William Cobbett

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
Geena Davis

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
James Baldwin

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Annie Dillard

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
James Wolfe

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E. F. Schumacher

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
Auberon Herbert

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Dorothea Brande

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
Lee De Forest

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Impossibility Translations

impossibility in Norwegian is umulighet
impossibility in Spanish is imposibilidad

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