Unthinkable Quotes

169 Unthinkable quotes by 149 unique authors

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. — Salman Rushdie
What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago? — Randall Terry
Human morality is unthinkable without empathy. — Frans de Waal
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it… — Douglas Adams
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. — Leonard Bernstein
It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it. — Sarah Dessen
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. — Virginia Woolf
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that… — Tom Robbins
But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with,… — Milan Kundera
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. — C.S. Lewis
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used… — Charles Morgan
Physical love is unthinkable without violence. — Milan Kundera
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their… — Henry Miller
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in… — Clarice Lispector
Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable.… — David Sheff
It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated.… — Janet Fitch
The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce — Ludwig van Beethoven
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or… — Elizabeth Gilbert
They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and… — Arundhati Roy
Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. — Suzanne Collins
If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable. — Josephine Tey
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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