
“We know only too well that there are times when everything goes wrong, but, in our haste to make the worst of life, we are apt to forget that there are also times when everything goes right.”
Source: Faraway (1932), Ch. 5. 5
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The Sheltering Sky (1949)
Context: Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

“Lest we forget, when Europe goes far right, they go far right through Belgium.”
Last Week Tonight: European Far Right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFEeS2OXpoI Last Week Tonight: European Far Right (2 June 2014)
Last Week Tonight (2014–present)

“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how;
Everything is happy now,
Everything is upward striving”
Prelude to Pt. I, st. 7
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
Context: Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how;
Everything is happy now,
Everything is upward striving;
'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true
As for grass to be green or skies to be blue,—
'Tis the natural way of living:
Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake;
And the eyes forget the tears they have shed,
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache;
The soul partakes the season's youth,
And the sulphurous rifts of passion and woe
Lie deep 'neath a silence pure and smooth,
Like burnt-out craters healed with snow.

“Well," Claire said, "at least we have tacos. Everything goes better with tacos.”
Source: Bitter Blood

“When a solipsist dies… everything goes with him.”
Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.”
"Sign and Speed," p. 19
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and Nothing”

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence