Quotes About Unimaginable

#1. On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

Jason Epstein

#3. Though maybe that's all life ever is. Unimaginable, until it's happening to you.

Kate Racculia

#4. An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse
and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

Sam Harris

#5. My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the noblest work of God.

Mark Twain

#7. Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

Anton Chekhov

#8. I had to learn the hard way that treating the skin like an A-bomb drop zone is completely counterproductive. And through my healing journey, I've discovered something miraculous: that moisturizers can heal in unimaginable ways.

Yancy Lael

#9. The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Mary Oliver

#11. In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.

Kathryn Lasky

#12. But instead of this world unification ushering in an age of prosperity and peace, as most globalists believe it will, it will be a time of unimaginable human suffering as recorded in God's Word. The Anti-christ will tightly regulate who may buy and sell.

Russell Kirk

#13. A single God - touch From God's Compassion - Height Can transform man's unimaginable And countless weaknesses Into God's own infinite,Immortal and omnipotent Power.

Sri Chinmoy

#14. You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

Terence McKenna

#15. That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Bill Watterson

#16. These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have somehow fallen through the gaps and found themselves, often through unimaginable circumstances, on the cusp of existence. In another reality, this could easily be me or you.

Kathryn Prescott

#17. I think they could teach us unimaginable things.
Unimaginable! I can't imagine anything except danger.
I know. That's why they're afraid of you.

Patricia A. McKillip

#18. It is the privilege and the labor of the apprentice of creation to come with his imagination into the unimaginable, and with his speech into the unspeakable.

Wendell Berry

#19. For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says You are here.

Douglas Adams

#20. We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.

S.A. Tawks

#21. A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Jonah Hill

#22. Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body ...

Kiley MacLeod

#23. Bird of the sky
still bound to the earth,
soaring to unimaginable heights
yet returning to perch in the willow.
Death is near, always near
and so...is life
even in the ashes.
Rise Up Phoenix.
Live. Fly. Create!

Michele Jennae

#24. Movements- driven by such unexpected need, fueled by such a relentless desire, and crashing into unimaginable possibilities.

K. Bromberg

#25. Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#26. Having scored 298 and still hitting a six issomething unimaginable and youneed to be a genius for that

Waqar Younis

#27. Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

Alice Sebold

#28. Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

Georg Simmel

#29. Suppose that the earthly lives she and I shared for a few years are in reality only the basis for, or prelude to, or earthly appearance of, two unimaginable, supercosmic, eternal somethings.

C.S. Lewis

#30. To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Georges Bataille

#31. And how many ideas have there been upon earth, in human history, which only ten years earlier were unimaginable and which suddenly appeared when their mysteriously appointed season arrived, to go spreading all over the earth?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#32. A poem, novel or play that does not in some sense relate to previous texts is, in fact, literally unimaginable.

Andrew Bennett

#33. Dare to think the unimaginable, imagine the unthinkable, dream of that which will never happen, yet continue to aspire and to test the limits of your very being and those around you.

Mark W. Boyer

#34. Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism ...

Terry Eagleton

#35. Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Anna Maria Chavez

#36. It's really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today.

Steve Harvey

#37. In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all. Depression is a condition that is almost unimaginable to anyone who has not known it.

Andrew Solomon

#38. This is the best thing about men's friendships: most any awkwardness can be ignored by mutual agreement and, true connection being unimaginable, you can get on with the easier business of parallel living.

William Landay

#39. Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#40. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

Harry S. Truman

#41. The sun rises over the Grand Canyon, igniting rocks that have been there for two billion years before we were born and will likely remain two billion years after we're gone. My heart aches with the cruel and unimaginable beauty of it. We are nothing. We are everything.

Sarah Ockler

#42. In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Olympia Snowe

#43. Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.

Hillary Clinton

#44. Your mind can help you do the unimaginable.
Your hands can help you get the unattainable.
Your heart can help you accomplish the unachievable.
Your soul can help you create the inconceivable.
Your God can help you achieve the unthinkable.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. I look at you and my heart pounds, when for years, I don't think it beat at all. You fill the cracks and crevices, take away the emptiness. And when you're not by my side, the loss is unimaginable.

Kelly Moran

#46. To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

Rupert Everett

#47. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?

George Orwell

#48. Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.

Neal Shusterman

#49. Not that it matters, when you dream, there's no outside or in. Your mind is an unimaginable bloom. A willow catkin as big as the moon. With billions of anthers, shaking pollen like stars. It may seem strange, but in this boundless place
You are not alone.

Rich Shapero

#50. This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is the primal pain, what we call it in German. There will never be another pain like this pain. You cannot ready yourself for it because it is unimaginable.

David Samuel Levinson

#51. You know, I've walked this earth for over eleven thousand years, my lady. I have seen things in my life that are unimaginable to you, and you ask me if I doubt you? Lady, I doubt the very air you breathe. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#52. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

George Orwell

#53. Here, though, the police do not exist to protect and serve. They exist to maintain terror through unimaginable atrocity.

Edward Lee

#54. That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

Giles Andreae

#55. The world we learned as children to fear
the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.
-from Dracula In Love

Karen Essex

#56. He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine ...

Terry Pratchett

#57. Sometimes the plainest of things conceal the most unimaginable wonders,

Carrie Anne Noble

#58. I was petrified of what he made me feel. After having no one for so long, the possibility of filling the emptiness was almost unimaginable.

Helena Hunting

#59. I love words! I believe in their power to soothe, to comfort, to heal. I believe in their ability to inspire, to capture the unthinkable, to help us cope with the unimaginable.

Emma Kavanagh

#60. Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.

Kenneth Fisher

#61. Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.

Ted Chiang

#62. This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world.

Kofi Annan

#63. Librarians are hideous creatures of unimaginable power. And even if you could imagine their power, it would be illegal. It is absolutely illegal to even try to picture what such a being would be like.

Joseph Fink

#64. Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#65. Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning predictability, and the need for disruption. We do irrational things, outrageous things. Or else something will come along and intervene, an unimaginable foe.

Carol Shields

#66. It was some kind of cosmic switching device, routing the traffic of the stars through unimaginable dimensions of space and time. He was passing through a Grand Central Station of the galaxy.

Arthur C. Clarke

#67. Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#68. Happiness is your True Nature.
Within you is Unimaginable Beauty.
Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment.
Through the clear Realization of the Truth,
your Real Self will come shining through.

Robert Adams

#69. We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).

Jack Kerouac

#70. China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people.

Zhang Xin

#71. All for the first time, in the days when acts had no consequences and nothing was irrecoverable, and love was simple and even pain had the dignity of enduring forever: it was unimaginable that time could do anything to diminish it.

James Baldwin

#72. so that this world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds previously unimaginable.

Lana Wachowski

#73. For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.

Michael Boatman

#74. Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

R.L. LaFevers

#75. Once the woman decided to get free, she had also decided to stay free... The older Jo =got, the more he understood about the woman he called Ma. The more he understood that sometimes staying free required unimaginable sacrifice.

Yaa Gyasi

#76. Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

Marsha Blackburn

#77. marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.

Khaled Hosseini

#78. I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

Phil Klay

#79. In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy

Peter Piot

#80. The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it. The prophesy of the Apocalypse is just one of the Bible's beautiful messages that has been distorted.

Dan Brown

#81. The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

Sebastian Faulks

#82. Spain's churches, monuments, language, and literature are richly redolent of a unique, multifaith heritage. Muslims, Christians, and Jews had worked, worshipped, and interacted in Spain on a scale unparalleled and even unimaginable elsewhere in the medieval West.

Christopher Lowney

#83. The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

Peter Robinson

#84. I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

N. Scott Momaday

#85. Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable.

Thomas Ligotti

#86. Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

Henry David Thoreau

#87. He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.

Vladimir Nabokov

#88. The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.

Al Gore

#89. The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Adam Shankman

#90. Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

Robert Adams

#91. When you can't imagine how things are going to change, that doesn't mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

Bruce Sterling

#92. Those vaccines, and others, have prevented unimaginable misery. But the misery is only unimaginable to Americans today because they no longer need to know such diseases exist.

Michael Specter

#93. If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously gifted me with an imagination that renders such a death entirely unimaginable?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#94. Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable - not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.

Sam Harris

#95. He has no choice but to believe, because losing the hope of having hope would be unimaginable.

Neal Shusterman

#96. She felt herself alone, lost like a stranger in some fantastic country whose language and mode of life were alike incomprehensible, surrounded by enemies in an atmosphere of suspicion and perpetually lurking, unimaginable dangers.

Anna Kavan

#97. Life's sloppy ... You think you know how tomorrow's going to be, you've made your plans, everything is set in place, and then the unimaginable happens. Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#98. Perhaps I think I will enjoy going to the devil," said James Herondale, and his eyes burned like the fires of Hell, enticing, and promising unimaginable suffering. "Though I see no need to take anyone else with me.

Cassandra Clare

#99. How I wished sometimes that I could join him in his stark, right-angled world, where everything was either right or wrong and there was no doubt which was which. What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if.

Hillary Jordan

#100. That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can't see them in the supermarket or wherever. It's a terrible, terrible moment ... the most unimaginable horror.

James Nesbitt