"when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority."
Read quote
4 likes
Matter quotes
Matter
6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Matter
Browse quotes that often appear alongside matter — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Matter quotes (page 54 of 301)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love."
Read quote
4 likes
"The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are."
Read quote
4 likes
"I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing."
Read quote
4 likes
"Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what."
Read quote
4 likes
"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."
Read quote
4 likes
"Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted."
Read quote
4 likes
"What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does."
Read quote
4 likes
"No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with."
Read quote
4 likes
"It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage."
Read quote
4 likes
"It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself."
Read quote
4 likes
"There's a love that never changes, no matter what you've done."
Read quote
4 likes
"To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect."
Read quote
4 likes
"The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw."
Read quote
4 likes
"Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what."
Read quote
4 likes
"For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing."
Read quote
4 likes
"All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe."
Read quote
4 likes
"It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters."
Read quote
4 likes
"It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting."
Read quote
4 likes
"All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life."
Read quote
4 likes