Quotes of Impalpable - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- W. Stanley Jevons

“ 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 impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ 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 out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, it will all blow over now… ”

- George William Russell
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