“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)
“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”
Roald Dahl book The Witches
"The Heart of a Mouse"
Source: The Witches (1983)
Clive Staples Lewis book A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lord Sunday (2010), p. 45.
“It doesn't matter what the supply of money is.”
Murray N. Rothbard book What Has Government Done to Our Money?
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)
“It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.”
Clive Staples Lewis book A Grief Observed
There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
A Grief Observed (1961)
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore. (p. 189)
“Doesn't matter now, devils who paint angels.”
Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat (1985)