Quotes about everything
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“Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“‎Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

“I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Life, Happiness, Learning, Time

“Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.”

Jenny Diski (1947–2016) British writer

“Things weren’t the same with us, not right away, and maybe not ever. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other’s lives without being everything to each other.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.”

Thomas Bernhard book Correction

Source: Correction

“You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“When everything gets answered, it's fake.”

Sean Penn (1960) American actor, screenwriter, and film director

“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

World

“There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger book Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Source: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

Love, Women, Men

“It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: Girl at Sea

“Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

Time

“Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Thinking, Time

“She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

Books, World, Feeling

“Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

Nicole Richie (1981) American television personality, musician, actress, and author

Life

“Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Parting

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Learning, Time, Future

“Everything in the street today seems soft focus.”

Irvine Welsh book Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: The Woman Destroyed

Love, Youth

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple (1982)

Love, Flowers, Tree, Singing

“When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

Hope

“Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Fate, Change

“I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just
something we haul into the grave.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

Life, Feeling

“The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but
truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Truth, Fear, Rage, Time

“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Variant: There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.
Source: Delta of Venus

Perfection

“I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.”

Dan Rather (1931) Journalist, Anchor

Confidence

“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter
Source: A Walk to Remember

Love, Life, Hope, Feeling

“I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Cooking

“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”

Stephen King book Duma Key

Source: Duma Key

Memory, Personality

“Everything I know, I know because of love.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Thoughts of Prince Andrew Bk XII, Ch. 16
Variant: All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
Context: Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Love

“Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.”
“Just most things.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“How I hate everything!”

Edith Wharton Summer

Source: Summer

Hate

“Do you have a death wish?" he asked. Will grinned at him.
I'm just relying on your judgment," he replied. "I can't keep track of everything in my head.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Battle for Skandia

Death

“That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

“Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. - Jace Wayland.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace and Clary, pg. 244
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "I wish I could hate you. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I think I do hate you and then I see you and I-"
"And you what?"
"What do you think? Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything. It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop."

Feeling

“Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?”

Donna Freitas (1972) American non-fiction writer and writer

Source: The Survival Kit