Palpable Quotes

“For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.”

“The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.”

“ReThink your success mindset: In life, the stuff that really matters most, is invisible, but palpable.”

“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”

“Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”

“Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.”

“His sadness was almost palpable, like moisture in the air before it rains. Although this was Manchester, it was probably about to rain anyway.”

“Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era.”

“Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.”

“The silence became palpable and merciless in its depths. The only sound came from my car’s radio. The Temptations towed me to tears.”