Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am… — Thomas Pynchon
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no… — Ian Mcewan
He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is… — Susanna Clarke
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there,… — Audrey Niffenegger
I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.… — Herman Melville
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness… — Kay Redfield Jamison
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.… — Albert Camus
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. — Tom Robbins
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common… — Linda Howard
If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the… — Michael Cunningham
In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was… — Sherwood Anderson
The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance… — William Shakespeare
Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are… — Terry Goodkind
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue… — Iris Murdoch
There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may… — John O'Donohue
Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome. — Jodi Picoult
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it… — Sigmund Freud
Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen… — Daisaku Ikeda
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each… — Isabel Allende

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