Inconceivable Quotes

#1. How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.

Maureen Dowd

#3. You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

Doris Lessing

#4. What do you know about women?
They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable.

Katie MacAlister

#5. We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations ... Lord, we come with great expectations.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#6. Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. He struggled with himself, too. I saw it
I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

Joseph Conrad

#8. I have all the defects of other people and yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

Emil Cioran

#9. The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

Aldous Huxley

#10. What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.

Max Planck

#11. I am a living soul dwelling on a planet that is afloat in a universe radiant with life. I feel so small and at the same time so uniquely privileged to partake in that inconceivable mystery.

Yossi Ghinsberg

#12. To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.

George Orwell

#13. What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

Albert Einstein

#14. There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

Elias Canetti

#15. Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.

Serzh Sargsyan

#16. Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.

Newt Gingrich

#17. At this very moment, I am suffering - as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Emil Cioran

#18. I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#19. At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.

Ann Radcliffe

#20. In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Najib Razak

#21. Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Dan Simmons

#22. The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.

Friedrich St. Florian

#23. I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

Laura Linney

#24. Individualism. Campbell said, "All religions are true in that the metaphor is true." I think this means that religions are meant to be literary maps, not literal doctrines, a signpost to the unknowable, a hymn to the inconceivable. Edward Slingerland is a professor

Russell Brand

#25. No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

Samuel Reshevsky

#26. When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

Adolph Gottlieb

#27. And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.

Elizabeth Drew

#28. The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

Emma Woolf

#29. The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

Roland Allen

#30. Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#31. Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

Anna Godbersen

#33. God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning ... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.

David B. Lentz

#34. Admiration was a sentiment unknown to her - first, as always more or less tainted with mediocrity, and next, as being in a way an admission of inferiority. And both were frankly inconceivable to her nature.

Joseph Conrad

#35. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain
why he did not instantly disappear.

Joseph Conrad

#36. She managed to thank God for having been born before she lost herself in the inconceivable pleasure of that unbearable pain, splashing in the steaming marsh of the hammock which absorbed the explosion of blood like a blotter

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#37. Clinton ... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

Bob Woodward

#38. God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

George Eliot

#39. Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.

Ilona Andrews

#40. It's inconceivable that you don't have to show identification in order to vote or that that the identification doesn't have to be somewhat foolproof.

Donald Trump

#41. No one could be following us yet?" the Spaniard asked. "No one," the Sicilian assured him. "It would be inconceivable." "Absolutely inconceivable?" "Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable," the Sicilian reassured him. "Why do you ask?

William Goldman

#42. God has the most incredible, unimaginable, inconceivable, and indescribable intention and design for your life.

Pedro Okoro

#43. Heaven is the creation inconceivable to man; earth is the creation conceivable to him.

Karl Barth

#44. Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions.

Jack London

#45. It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.

Bo Derek

#46. It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Michael Novak

#47. The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

Jonathan Edwards

#48. It seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but exceptional, a man not only capable of being a real poet, but a husband and father too.

Andre Dubus III

#49. Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

Bill Loguidice

#50. Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

David Platt

#51. Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish it.

Jim Valvano

#52. If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.

Paul Davies

#53. Placeless events are inconceivable, in that everything that happens must happen somewhere, and so history issues from geography in the same way that water issues from a spring: unpredictably but site-specifically.

Robert Macfarlane

#54. I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#55. We live in a world where it's feasible that a tiny hobbit can save an entire world, but not a feminine woman. And god help her if she's a woman of color, because that's given as even more inconceivable.

Ash Gray

#56. By the time Whitefield died in 1770, an inconceivable 80 percent of the population of the American colonies had heard him preach at least once.

Eric Metaxas

#57. The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.

Francoise Mauriac

#58. We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Susan Sontag

#59. It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.

Richard Leakey

#60. A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#61. Her absence is a presence, ghostly and haunting, touching all who knew her. It is impossible that she disappeared, inconceivable that she will never return. She is at once nowhere and everywhere, a constant shadow, elusory and insubstantial, her life an unkept promise, a half-remembered dream.

Christina Baker Kline

#62. Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.

Simon Bolivar

#63. [The wilderness] had caressed him, and - lo! - he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.

Joseph Conrad

#64. The writer is neither saint nor tzaddik nor prophet standing at the gate; he's just another sinner who has a somewhat sharper awareness and uses slightly more precise language to describe the inconceivable reality of our world.

Etgar Keret

#65. Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.

James Marsh

#66. A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Andre Maurois

#67. The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality.

Peter Watts

#68. It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

Celia Green

#69. The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one.

Ilyas Kassam

#70. What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love.

A.W. Tozer

#71. It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.

Aldo Leopold

#72. It was an age of lavishness. Of enormous meals, enormous families, enormous spreading skirts and an enormous, spreading Empire. An age of gross living, grinding poverty, inconceivable prudery, insufferable complacency and incomparable enterprise.

M.M. Kaye

#73. A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#74. For a West Point graduate to abandon his appointed task in the face of adversity or personal discomfort was all but inconceivable.

David McCullough

#75. We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

#76. It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.

Bruno Frey

#77. It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#78. If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#79. We hear inconceivable, but cannot see the intangible.

Akiane Kramarik

#80. A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Lin Yutang

#81. Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.

Jacques Ellul

#82. The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Andrea Dworkin

#83. For instance, people who have to walk miles for water - and we just turn on the faucet and let it run. Or people right here in our country [USA] who are food insecure, and yet we as a nation throw out an inconceivable amount of food.

Joy Bryant

#84. To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate

William Wilberforce

#85. Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.

T.F. Hodge

#86. The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a ghastly risk, and, in the case of the vast majority of human beings, an inconceivable misfortune.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#87. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Isak Dinesen

#88. I couldn't suppress a smile. It was inconceivable that I was here, in a place as extraordinary as the fantasy books Sophie loved. Maybe...just maybe those stories are based on a measure of truth. Maybe one day I'd write our story.

Heather L. L. FitzGerald

#89. National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

Pankaj Mishra

#90. Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

Alan Keyes

#91. It's because it makes no difference to her at all whether I speak or not; as if I didn't exist and never had existed ... the thing more inconceivable than one's death
never to have been born ...

Ayn Rand

#92. I love you, he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.

Jodi Picoult

#93. When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

Doris Lessing

#94. The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#95. I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Zadie Smith

#96. Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is inconceivable. Yet every summer, when our peppers are drying from green to red, one can see an intermediate stage that is precisely reddish green.

Guy Davenport

#97. It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

Juan Enriquez

#98. Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

William Goldman

#99. A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

Hubert Burda

#100. Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable ... after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

Gene Cernan