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Mattered Quotes

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could Picture Quote #1

He was the closest thing I’d ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn’t count. You were either in, or you weren’t Picture Quote #1

She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive Picture Quote #1

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn’t matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover Picture Quote #1

She braided my sister’s hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock Picture Quote #1

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered Picture Quote #1

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For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight Picture Quote #1

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn’t mattered Picture Quote #1

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? Picture Quote #1

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She’d been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain Picture Quote #1

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other’s constant Picture Quote #1

Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always Picture Quote #1

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How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn’t scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me? Picture Quote #1

He hadn’t loved me well in the end, but he’d loved me well when it mattered Picture Quote #1

Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren’t even real. All I ever wanted was you Picture Quote #1

And in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her Picture Quote #1

And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier. For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore. Like nothing would matter ever again Picture Quote #1

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter Picture Quote #1

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We’re killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses Picture Quote #1

He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered Picture Quote #1

Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions Picture Quote #1

Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years Picture Quote #1

There’s so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don’t matter now Picture Quote #1

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore Picture Quote #1

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My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure Picture Quote #1

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death Picture Quote #1

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you’d go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours... and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o’clock, prompt. Every day Picture Quote #1

Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch that I’d scratched so hard I was bleeding. I had set out to do the impossible, whatever the impossible might be, only to find out that it was living with myself. Suicide became an expiration date, the day after which I no longer had to try Picture Quote #1

Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it’s not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren’t always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I’d be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered Picture Quote #1

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don’t think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out Picture Quote #1

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I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could (Mattered Quotes) He was the closest thing I’d ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn’t count. You were either in, or you weren’t (Mattered Quotes) She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive (Mattered Quotes) Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn’t matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover (Mattered Quotes) She braided my sister’s hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock (Mattered Quotes) You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered (Mattered Quotes) For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight (Mattered Quotes) One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn’t mattered (Mattered Quotes) And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? (Mattered Quotes) And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She’d been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain (Mattered Quotes) Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other’s constant (Mattered Quotes) Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always (Mattered Quotes) How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn’t scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me? (Mattered Quotes) He hadn’t loved me well in the end, but he’d loved me well when it mattered (Mattered Quotes) Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren’t even real. All I ever wanted was you (Mattered Quotes) And in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her (Mattered Quotes) And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier. For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore. Like nothing would matter ever again (Mattered Quotes) I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter (Mattered Quotes) We’re killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses (Mattered Quotes) He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered (Mattered Quotes) Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions (Mattered Quotes) Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years (Mattered Quotes) There’s so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don’t matter now (Mattered Quotes) Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore (Mattered Quotes) My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure (Mattered Quotes) A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death (Mattered Quotes) Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you’d go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours... and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o’clock, prompt. Every day (Mattered Quotes) Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch that I’d scratched so hard I was bleeding. I had set out to do the impossible, whatever the impossible might be, only to find out that it was living with myself. Suicide became an expiration date, the day after which I no longer had to try (Mattered Quotes) Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it’s not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren’t always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I’d be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered (Mattered Quotes) It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don’t think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out (Mattered Quotes)

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