Mattered Quotes

299 quotes by 232 authors

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in oneâ€™s life. There… — Alain de Botton
Yeah, I must have been really bad in a past life or something." He smiled, his eyes still in pain. Reaching up, he touched a… — L.A. Weatherly
How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together… — Ilona Andrews
Why was it that they could never shout like that about something that mattered? — George Orwell
It hurts because it mattered. — John Green
How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered — Kristin Cashore
From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends… — Kristin Hannah
Percy smiled at her - that sarcastic troublemaker smile that had annoyed her for years but eventually had become endearing. His sea-green eyes were as… — Rick Riordan
He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered. — Cheryl Strayed
Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you werenâ€™t even real. All I ever wanted was you. — Sarah Rees Brennan
and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her. — Nicholas Sparks
His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny… — Karen Marie Moning
Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds. — Kristen Britain
And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier.… — James Dashner
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. — John Irving
He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Once she exclaimed, "But I always thought that sorceresses were evil!" "What do you mean 'evil'?" Lynet has never considered the question. "You know," she… — Gerald Morris
I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't… — Bob Goff
In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words… — Nicholas Sparks

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