Top 35 Unattainable Quotes

I’d always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

You know, you can’t give this unattainable superhero and expect people to identify with them. It’s a cool story to read, but I never identified with Wonder Woman, until I read the story like, where she goes blind for a year and ends up in the underworld.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn’t going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Hot Ones’ is a show that takes a celebrity, which by definition is a person whose lifestyle is unattainable, and then ‘Hot Ones’ takes that celebrity and knocks them down a peg – a level that everyone can relate to.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

It’s the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it’s like a cruel carrot that’s being waved in front of people’s noses. It’s a seduction, an unattainable dream.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

I think when we grow up watching TV, the stars seem like stars. You don’t know what they went through. You don’t know how they got it. It almost seems unattainable. With social media, we are able to show people if you work hard, that you can literally do the same thing.

I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn’t believe it was possible.

Body image – what we’re supposed to look like – is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That’s a horrible thing.

It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn’t seem possible; that seems insane.

Supergirl is this unattainable, idealistic optimist of an alien, and all of us can escape into her world, and she always saves the day.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Don’t get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they’re not always creatively your most useful things to know.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

When you’re obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy… it’s like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

I can’t comprehend that I’m in the film of ‘Les Miserables.’ It’s one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Celebrity is this thing that’s unattainable. This unattainable lifestyle. This unattainable social status. But there’s nothing more commonplace than dying from hot sauce.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

Packing your lunch for the work week can seem like an unattainable goal especially when work gets hectic and crazy.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don’t think it’s breeding anything good in young girls.

The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education – today’s passport to riches – is unaffordable.

Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we’re forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

I really believed it was important to explain to our young audience that expectations based on people who are trying to sell them things are unattainable.

I used to think fashion was something unattainable and reserved only for people who look like models. But looking back, I’ve always made bold choices, possibly beginning with the silk jungle print jacket, orange shorts, and Nepalese cap I insisted on wearing every day when I was ten.

I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it… People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.

When you fall in love with favourite movie stars, it’s not because they’re movie stars and unattainable, but because they show you sides of themselves that are extremely personal.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Christian Grey – he isn’t a real person. He’s a superhero. A myth. He’s like Bigfoot! He’s unbelievable. He’s unattainable. There’s no actor in the world who could live up to that.