impossibility

• But it cannot be; it is quite, quite impossible This impossibility is also one of the imagination No, no, Julie; the effort to repose this confidence would destroy all confidence between us. —  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
• Perpetual absorption in the Transcendent is a human impossibility, and the effort to achieve it is both unsocial and silly. —  Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People
• The accountant might find the work of the musician an impossibility, and what little he did accomplish, a vexation; while the confinement of the counting-room, with its prosaic duties, would be the worst form of slavery for the musician, his work inferior, his capacity limited, his situation intolerable but for the meagre salary it might afford A bank president called on me with his son, requesting an examination for the latter. —  How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony
• And from the impossibility, as I supposed, of there being any, or of the ingress of any, unless by the same passage I entered at, and by which I was well assured they could never return, I grew contented, and blamed myself for the folly of my imaginary voices, as I called them then, and took it for a distemper of the fancy only The next day I looked over my load of matweed, having given it that name, and separated the different lengths from each other. —  Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.)
• We must examine the possibility and the impossibility, and afterwards see who is the man who says he is the author of the distich, for there are extraordinary people in the world. —  Figures of Several Centuries

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