A Quote by J. M. Coetzee

Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.

J. M. Coetzee

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J. M. Coetzee
South African - Novelist
Born: February 9, 1940

When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.

Anthony Marra

It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.

Val McDermid

It is not unimaginable to have military options to respond to North Korean nuclear capability. What's unimaginable to me is allowing a capability that would allow a nuclear weapon to land in Denver, Colorado. That's unimaginable to me. So my job will be to develop military options to make sure that doesn't happen.

Joseph Dunford

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

Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

Gong Ji-young

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Ali Smith

It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

William Golding

That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.

Charles Osgood

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

Geoffrey Beene

The power of our conscious mind is unimaginable.

Zak Bagans

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

George Orwell

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

Cynthia Ozick

If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it.

Chris Guillebeau

His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

Lois Lowry

It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.

Alvin E. Roth

I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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