Improbable Quotes

“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.”
― Rod Serling

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Approaching the forest from the west was no army, but a delegation of Grailsundanian master surgeons on their way to an appendix conference . . . But that isn't the craziest part of the story - oh, no, my boy, for approaching from the east was a party of itinerant watchmakers bound for the pocket-watch fair at Wimbleton . . . But not even that is the craziest part of the story! For apporaching from the south were over a hundred armourers and locksmiths on their way to Florinth, where some power-hungry prince had commissioned them to build a monstrous war machine . . . Well, that would be enough crazy coincedences for an averagely crazy story but the battle of Nurn Forest involved the most improbable coincedences in the history of Zamonia. For entering the forest, this time from the north came a delegation of alchemists.”
― Walter Moers, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

“Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”
― Kenneth Patchen, Poemscapes

“Mr. False! No, don't start grabbing the chickens! Better off farmer with no chickens than a load of chickens with no farmer! Anyway, they'll probably float, or fly, or something!”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I could scarcely believe what I saw and I had the sense as in a nightmare of being involved in something both wildly improbable and relentlessly inevitable. This had to happen. Yet how could it have happened?”
― Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“I dream of defeating tyrants and ogres as well as circumstances and consequences that I cannot conquer in life. I dream of a love as sweet and addictive as chocolate-coated rose petals yet as tenacious as a thirsty vampire and as enduring as immortality. I dream of things improbable and boldly insane.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We assume the impossible to be just that…impossible. But when it comes to God, it’s impossible that anything is impossible. Therefore, if we understand this reality and if we dare to act it out in our lives, could it be that the word impossible is just an excuse?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Nothing is impossible no matter how improbable, all things can be done before the rising sun!”
― Misti Renea Neely

“All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.”
― Jean-Christophe Valtat, Luminous Chaos

“Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I suppose that Christmas seems vexingly improbable in my mind because that’s not anything that I would do. But isn’t that the exact reason why we need Christmas?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are far too practical, and in our practicality we far too often forget that what is practical is far too limited to open the door to the impossible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“As utterly improbable as it sounds, could my pain in some sense not be my pain at all? In fact, could it be that my pain is the agent that heals the pain of another in ways that their own pain never could?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Do not mistakenly define ‘impossible’ as that which is merely difficult. For that creates the sickening illusion that such an incredible and far-reaching feat is within the reach of fragile men. Rather, the impossible is that which simply cannot be achieved by the efforts of men, and it will not fall to any deceptive illusion or shoddy notion that such a feat is possible despite declarations to the contrary. In His wisdom, God reserved the feat of achieving the impossible exclusively for Himself. And that wisdom is brilliantly manifest in the fact that God stands ready and willing to work out the impossible through the fragile frame of our own humanity in a manner that we do what we cannot, and God is given the glory He otherwise would not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough