Impalpable Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
— William Stanley Jevons
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Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the…
— Norman Mailer
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Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places…
— Stephen Mitchell
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The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and…
— Karl Jaspers
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and…
— Octavio Paz
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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so…
— Charles Baudelaire
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A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put…
— George William Russell
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Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught…
— Octavio Paz
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Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on…
— Walt Whitman
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I…
— Pablo Neruda
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But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more…
— Marcel Proust
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with…
— Joseph Conrad
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none…
— Victor Hugo
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Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable…
— Charles Munch
Who Wrote These Impalpable Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Impalpable Quotes as follows: