Substance Quotes

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.