Top 25 Unthinkable Quotes of 30

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Salman Rushdie

Events, Extraordinary Things, Unthinkable

Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

Nick Johnson

Starting, Unthinkable, Thinkable

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Murray Bookchin

Impossible, Petra, Unthinkable

"The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, p. 107, 2005.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

John Ashcroft

September 11, World, Unthinkable

Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable.

Moshe Feldenkrais

Movement, Life Is, Unthinkable

Moshé Feldenkrais (1984). “The master moves”, Meta Pubns

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.

Paul Keating

Australia, Would Be, Unthinkable

"Ned Kelly and 'Mary Poppins' Writer Among Top Irish-Australians". www.irishtimes.com. August 19, 2009.

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Wilfred Owen

Soldier, Historical, Unthinkable

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

Henry Miller

Life Is, Coca Cola, Unthinkable

Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.258, New Directions Publishing

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Arundhati Roy

Impossible, Unthinkable, Happened

We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.

Ferran Adria

Secret, Recipes, Unthinkable

"World's top chefs talk cuisine, creativity in Chicago". Interview with Mark Caro, www.chicagotribune.com. March 20, 2014.

The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.

Wolfgang Smith

Unthinkable, Thesis

Dr. Wolfgang Smith (2015). “Teilhardism And The New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”, p.18, TAN Books

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire, Gale, Unthinkable

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.638, Scholastic Inc.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

Robert Silverberg

Unthinkable

Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

Karl Kautsky

Democracy, Socialism, Unthinkable

John Hans Kautsky, Karl Kautsky (1924). “Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy”, p.217, Transaction Publishers

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

Virginia Woolf

Unthinkable, Oneself

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1423, Delphi Classics

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Samuel Butler

Thinking, Absence, Unthinkable

Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Limits, Unthinkable

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

Barry Pepper

Beach, Exhausted, Unthinkable