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Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it. -- Sarah Vowell
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself -- Henry David Thoreau
Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble. -- Paula Fox
Why we are here is an impenetrable question. -- Edward Albee
Using your car as a weapon and impenetrable armor. -- Paulo Coelho
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night... -- Sun Tzu
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy. -- Harrison Salisbury
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves. -- Simon Callow
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. -- William Wordsworth
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved -- Iris Murdoch
Cada hombre es un misterio impenetrable en vida y en muerte -- Manuel Azaña
Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company. -- Ian Kershaw
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand. -- William Golding
Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go. -- Trevor Baylis
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable. -- Lionel Shriver
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable. -- Teller
Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable. -- Donella Meadows
However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it. -- Andrew Wiles
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. -- Lionel Trilling
The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
Ningún poder humano puede jamás violentar el sagrario impenetrable de la libertad del corazón. -- Fénelon
Ningún poder humano puede jamás violentar el sagrario impenetrable de la libertad del corazón -- François Fénelon
His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. -- Victor Hugo
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. -- Sun Tzu
Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it. -- Beryl Markham
Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable. -- Jerome Kerviel
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz. -- Andre Maurois
I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew. -- Margaret E. Barber
Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think? -- Jonathan Hull
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. -- Arthur Schnitzler
As you watch the Gary Condit interview, three words come to mind: stiff, unbending and impenetrable. And that's just his hair. -- David Letterman
Lo inaccesible junto a lo impenetrable unido a lo inexplicable, lo inexplicable a par de lo inconmensurable; esto es el cielo -- Victor Hugo
Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. -- Edwin Muir
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis. -- Terence McKenna
Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part. -- Albert Camus
He would never admit it, but he did have a heart of gold under all that crud.Solid, hard, impenetrable gold, but still gold, nonetheless. -- Jessiqua Wittman
Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable. -- Margaret Atwood
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The night had darkened to the murky sort where the air hung like descending clouds and the overhead branches made the liquid darkness even more impenetrable. -- Katherine McIntyre
I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me. -- Paul Auster
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self. -- Muriel Barbery
Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! -- Bill Watterson
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect. -- Seal
Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows. -- Patrick deWitt
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman. -- Victor Hugo
She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting. -- Margaret Atwood
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness. -- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. -- Joseph Conrad
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! -- Jules Verne
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. -- Albert Einstein
For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. -- Critias
The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me -- Barbara Morgenroth
Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were made,Till thy Command gave Light. -- Thomas Chatterton
The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?" -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable. -- F.T. McKinstry
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. -- Thomas Day
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. -- Albert Einstein
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events. -- Maxwell Maltz
About ten degrees upslope of Fiction, I could see our nearest neighbor: Artistic Criticism. It was an exceptionally beautiful island, yet deeply troubled, confused and suffused with a blanketing layer of almost impenetrable bullshit. -- Jasper Fforde
These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable. -- Sigmund Freud
Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story. -- Ted Danson

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