“However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.” GivingMayEndsImpossibleHabitGiving UpProjectsGainsDetermination Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?” ThinkingMaySometimesDreamBodyWonderImpossibleImpossibility Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
“Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?” IfsMayArtistAnswersImpossibleGroupsAchievementImportanceFollowing Book:Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art Source: Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art
“The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen...” IfsMayWould BeImpossibleHeardListeningOffersUnderstoodEarsResistanceSpite Author:Teresa of Avila
“To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."” KnowsMenWorldShouldBelieveMaySaidLyingImpossibleHonestDeceitOne ManDishonestyHonest Man Author:William Shenstone