Insubstantiality Quotes

“But who on earth had ever found the world the pleasanter and sweeter a place to bid good-bye to simply because it was obviously 'substantial', whatever that may mean? Simply because it did nothing you wanted it to do unless you paid for it pretty handsomely; or unless you accepted what it proffered with as open a hospitality as Jimmie had bestowed on his pilgrims of the night. Not that he much wanted – however pressing the invitation – to wander off out of his body into a better world, or, for that matter, into a worse.”
― Walter de la Mare, Out of the Deep