Unthinkable Quotes

169 Unthinkable quotes by 149 unique authors

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for… — Thomas Ligotti
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened — Arundhati Roy
She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no… — Maggie O'Farrell
Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone. — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am… — Suzanne Collins
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as… — Jack London
I guess the answer would be yes." "Got to love that word." He kissed her so sweetly then, it brought tears to her eyes. "Got… — Cindy Gerard
There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence. — Milan Kundera
What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually… — Mark Nepo
If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There… — Mohsin Hamid
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other. — Wislawa Szymborska
Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac,… — Libba Bray
That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want… — Frances Hardinge
I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I- I don't..." His… — Rick Riordan
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. — H. L. Mencken
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology… — Tony Benn
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. — J. William Fulbright
There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes… — Gary Zukav
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be… — Antonio Damasio
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its… — Charles Krauthammer
Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would… — Zubin Mehta
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity,… — Richard Dawkins
Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable. — Robbie Robertson

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