In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are…

— Jeet Thayil

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

— Storm Jameson

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

— Frederick Lenz

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

— Stephen Johnson Field

“The shadow has become the substance.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

— George Chapman

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story…

— Annie Besant

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

— Henry David Thoreau

God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our…

— Jonathan Edwards

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

— Robert Plant

In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit…

— Dante Alighieri

I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex…

— Jeffrey Dahmer

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat…

— Dave Barry

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

— Louise Bogan