Unthinkable Quotes - Page 10

• When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Stopping, Threshold

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 28, 2014

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• 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

  Forever, World, Produce

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• Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Each Day, Becoming

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• 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

  Democracy, Politics, Honest

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

  Samuel Beckett

  Reality, Appreciate, Effort

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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