„Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.“

„The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart“

—  Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968

Вариант: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

„Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.“

—  John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914

July 1890, page 320
John of the Mountains, 1938
Источник: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

„Be your strong and simple words
Keen to wound as sharpened swords,
And wide as targes let them be,
With their shade to cover ye.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley English Romantic poet 1792 - 1822

St. 74
(1819)

„It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.“

—  Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Источник: Tiger Lily

„Everything that's in [my] books comes out of what I've seen, or touched, or felt, or smelt, and if I had one wish it would be that the books were fiction.“

—  Andrew Vachss American writer and lawyer 1942

Dave Thompson interview

„She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.“

—  Holly Black American children's fiction writer 1971

Источник: Ironside

„He jests at scars that never felt a wound.“

—  William Shakespeare, книга Romeo and Juliet

Источник: Romeo and Juliet

„Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger.“

—  Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=yEA_AQAAMAAJ&q=%22small+debts+are+like+small+shot+they+are+rattling+on+every+side+and+can+scarcely+be+escaped+without+a+wound+great+debts+are+like+cannon+of+loud+noise+but+little+danger%22&pg=PA189#v=onepage to Joseph Simpson, circa 1759
Vol I

„Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.“

—  Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

Источник: Maisie Dobbs

„sorrow… is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of
love touches it“

—  Oscar Wilde, книга De Profundis

Источник: De Profundis

„A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart;
But it's innocence and modesty
that polished the dart.“

—  Robert Burns, Handsome Nell

Handsome Nell (1773) (also known as "My Handsome Nell"), st. 6.
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)

„Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.“

—  Kim Edwards, книга The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Источник: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

„He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed, and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death.“

—  Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626

The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Death

„I was particularly keen to do what little I could to help your country after the collapse of Communism, having for so long held a combination of profound admiration and heartfelt sympathy for the appalling suffering of the Polish people.“

—  Lech Kaczyński Polish politician, president of Poland 1949 - 2010

„I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.“

—  Sylvia Plath, книга The Bell Jar

Источник: The Bell Jar

„The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little — or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.“

—  Anthony Trollope English novelist (1815-1882) 1815 - 1882

Источник: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 10

„A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,
Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,
And touched nothing that he did not adorn.“

—  Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784

Epitaph on Goldsmith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.“

—  Douglas Coupland, книга Generation A

Источник: Generation A

„I looked like a ghost.
And I should know. I’ve seen a few.“

—  Lilith Saintcrow American writer 1976

Источник: Betrayals