Quotes about matter
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“Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol

Angels

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

For Wife, love, Hurtful, Relationship

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Way, Happiness

“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”

Jason Fried software entrepreneur

Source: Rework

Thinking

“To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer

People, Fear, Feeling, Success

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

Imagination, Idea, Fashion

“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Source: Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

People, World, Idea, Passion

“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Behavior, Parent

“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer

Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Context: I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Way

“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

Love

“No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Parting

“There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.”

Patricia MacLachlan book Sarah, Plain and Tall

Source: Sarah, Plain and Tall

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Fight

“No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Heartbreaking

“What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Fox Inheritance

Thinking

“The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Variant: Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back to the way they were. If one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Truth, Sadness, Way

“Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.”

Umberto Eco book The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

Understanding

“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.”

John Connolly (1968) author

Source: The Infernals

Evil

“Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Lost Colony

Tear, Night

“The journey, Not the destination matters…”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Variant: The journey not the arrival matters.

“What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos)
Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“Does trust have to be earned? Or is it simply a matter of faith?”

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 7, p. 105
Variant: Do trust have to be earned? Or is it simple a matter of faith?
Source: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)

Faith

“You have to remember… that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.”

Jonathan Kozol (1936) American activist and educator

Source: Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

Life, Boy

“No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Clothes

“It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.”

Lev Grossman book The Magician's Land

Source: The Magician's Land

Books, Home

“You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most… you are beastly.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

“It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.”

Dave Pelzer (1960) American author

Source: A Child Called "It"

People, World, Past

“For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

Source: Tropic of Capricorn

Time

“A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Beauty

“It didn’t matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice.
She raised her eyes to the Angel’s.
"Jace," she said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Angels

“What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining (1977)

Understanding

“Never be afraid to tell me anything,” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: The Darkest Hour

Love, Feeling

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Love

“If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.”

Andy Stanley (1958) American Christian minister

Source: Fields Of Gold

God, Idea

“Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

For Team

“No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.”

Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer

“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”

Jane Green (1968) British writer

Source: Second Chance

Life, People, History

“No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”

Barbara Bush (1925–2018) former First Lady of the United States

Variant: Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

Sex, Forgetting

“Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Love

“Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Five Red Herrings

Source: Five Red Herrings

People

“No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.”

Hugh Nibley (1910–2005) Religious scholar

Knowledge

“So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.”

Paulo Coelho Maktub

Source: Maktub

Thinking, Change

“I read the first chapter ofwhen Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Life, Universe, Time, Reading

“You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.”

Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist

Source: Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1

Reality

“It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Hurt

“No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.”

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist

Despair

“The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Change, Past

“Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Dead

“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer

Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

People

“As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

Beauty, Time

“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Life, People, Time, Past

“The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the
only way I function. That’s all I am.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Way, Motivation, Personality, Selfishness

“To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Life, Reality, Sense, Despair

“You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Time, Joy

“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?'
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)

Thinking

“It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey…..”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Time, Madness

“The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them?
Because we were out of raspberries.
Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Time

“It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: No Place to Run

Love, Hope, Hell

“We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

IX: "Le Mauvais Vitrier" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_IX._Le_Mauvais_Vitrier (fr) Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance? Le spleen de Paris (1862) Variant: What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy? Source: Paris Spleen

“no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!”

Brenda Jackson (1953) American writer

Source: Perfect Timing

Problem, Thinking