Unsubstantial Quotes

#1. As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Charles Dickens

#2. What an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospection I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.

Charles Dickens

#3. But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, 'we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

Virginia Woolf

#4. Unsubstantial Death is amorous.

William Shakespeare

#5. Thinking of the anguish of his final days and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you've already forgotten by the time you wake up.

Khaled Hosseini

#6. But when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of us securely prisoned from the cradle to the grave, he has made a discovery. If the world does not please you, you can change it.

H.G.Wells

#7. She had not prayed directly for the recovery of the baby - she had prayed that they might find a pearl with which to hire the doctor to cure the baby, for the minds of people are as unsubstantial as the mirage of the Gulf.

John Steinbeck

#8. Your fantastic anticipations make me discern all the more forcibly what a wretched, unsubstantial scheme is this, on which we have wasted a precious summer of our lives. Do you seriously imagine that any such realities as you, and many others here, have dreamed of, will ever be brought to pass?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are.

Gillian Flynn

#10. Her painting was vaporous and unsubstantial, but it had a flowerlike grace and even a certain careless elegance. There

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
Was earthly fame.

Robert Pollok

#12. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.

James Joyce

#13. The air which is so thin and unsubstantial gives birth to storms that nothing can resist.

Anonymous

#14. For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

Sophocles

#15. You see, my son, it is not a fact that you will never face dangers. Difficulties always come, but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.

Sarada Devi

#16. Your face never looks better than when you've got a gun in your hand and money under your ass.

Karina Halle

#17. A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#18. It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

Ayn Rand

#19. The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down.

Haruki Murakami

#20. It's early in the morning and your competition is still sleeping.

Greg Plitt

#21. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

Agatha Christie

#22. I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

Michael Hutchence

#23. Okay, fine. You won't vote for us, America? We tried this the easy way, but you give us no choice. We're going to overwhelm you with new voters from the Third World.

Ann Coulter

#24. I smoke because I like to get high.

Method Man

#25. Oh, darling, just look at your poor face. You're going to need an herb poultice and a fresh piece of steak for that wound."
"And here I was looking forward to eating dinner, not wearing it on my face.

Tracy Anne Warren