Mattering Quotes

“I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Telling yourself that something does not matter is one of the loneliest things you can do, because you only say it, of course, about things that matter very much. But often, and this is the lonely part, they only matter to you.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.”
― John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground

“...we knew that everything was more about how it appeared than how it was. The most important thing, in any circumstance, was to amount to something that really looked like it was something.”
― Janne Teller, Nothing

“Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?”
― Ryan Lilly

“Everything that matters hurts, until it doesn't matter anymore.”
― Dianna Hardy, Broken Lights

“You matter.
You are important.
There is a reason for your existence.
You may not see or understand how this is true, but truth doesn't cease to be truth because of doubt, blindness, or ignorance.
And the truth is―you matter.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“The only reason anything matters is because it ends,' he says. 'I wouldn't hold you so tightly now if I thought we could be here forever.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye within the vicinity―from insect to animal to human wanderer―stopped to blink, suddenly blinded. Their guiding light had vanished, extinguishing hope in the hearts of many. That little light had mattered, but he knew it not.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Processing a process is making longer processes on matters, dont process processes to end processes on time.”
― Wilson M. Mukama

“... The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real....”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“If everything is the same thing, then does anything matter?” I insist. He caps his pen, pauses, and finally says, “Well, I suppose it’s the way it’s all arranged that gives it meaning . . . it’s how it’s put together. But then again, in the grand scheme of things . . . no, it probably doesn’t matter in the way we think it does.”
― Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

“We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others.”
― Tom Hayes

“When he finally made himself meet Julian's eyes, he couldn't find any doubt or ridicule in his face. Julian believed him, and his respect was so consequential that it felt like Paul's first step toward mattering. Paul wasn't sure he would ever grow used to it -- this thrill of being seen and known and understood.”
― Micah Nemerever

“... And the difference between nothing mattering and one thing mattering is a big one.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“But mattering to her alone wasn’t reason enough for a person to live. Rafi needed to know he belonged to more than just his lover, that many people cherished him and wanted him back. That he had a place in the world, just by virtue of being himself.”
― Molly Ringle, Ballad for Jasmine Town