"impossible desire" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a feeling of wanting something that cannot be achieved or fulfilled. For example, "No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't shake her impossible desire to win the grand prize."
Harris felt jolted, as if King were speaking directly to him, to his deepest, most impossible desire.
The Sense of an Ending honours that impossible desire in a way that is novel, fertile and memorable.
Ms. Mann's scenes from a marriage and a mortuary leap to the heart of this impossible desire.
In the early two-thousands, I saw some of these, among them "Love, Janis," an affecting cabaret-size show about Janis Joplin, based on her letters; "Lost Highway," about Hank Williams, which both satisfied and frustrated my impossible desire to see him in concert; and a small show about Edith Piaf, with similar results.
And as Nishida confided many years later to Nishitani, it was from early on his "impossible desire" to somehow bring Zen and philosophy together (NKZ XIX, 224 25; see Davis 2004b, 256ff).
Holden has also been routinely reviled as a corruptor of youth, a target of self-righteous morality cops and misguided schoolboards bent on banning a book that depicts Holden's impossible desire to save the children and erase F-bombs from the walls of public places.
Such impossible desires, especially since we had all the typical post-Soviet problems that is, we were in possession of some brains and absolutely no clout or money.
And there's no feeling more poisonous than crashing and lamenting my inability to achieve the manic self's impossible desires.
Huppert, white-faced and love-stricken, is now a modern queen submitting to her impossible, irrational desire for a stepson who is a self-absorbed adolescent who spends his days playing with electric trains and watching an endless loop of the shower-scene from Psycho.
The boost in the station's orbit, which was done by utilizing the engines of the Progress M1-1 and M1-2 spacecraft, made transit between Mir and the International Space Station impossible, as desired by NASA.
