Palpable Quotes

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At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize… — C.S. Lewis
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable. — Sue Monk Kidd
...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to… — Rod Serling
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling… — Brandon Mull
In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed… — Dave Eggers
But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable… — Mary Oliver
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security. — Jean Baudrillard
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,… — Martin Amis
I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How… — Suzanne Collins
That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head,… — Franz Kafka
At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate… — David James Duncan
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness… — Milan Kundera
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a… — George Orwell
The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on… — Laini Taylor
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable… — David Mitchell
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every… — Thomas Jefferson

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