Unreachable Ideal Quotes

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

We had terrible trouble finding a Buttercup because she had to be so beautiful. We had all kinds of pretty girls come in, but they weren't this staggering thing.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.

I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

I'm a perfectionist by nature. Then, because I'm so close to Angie it's like I've already got the perfect woman in my life and it's hard for anyone else to live up to that.

But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

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.

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.