Substance Quotes

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.