Quotes about everything
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“Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Life, Peace

“It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Feeling, Thinking, Forgetting

“We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Way

“Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.”

Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children

Source: Midnight's Children

“Tragedy alters everything.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Star, Understanding

“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”

Clive Barker book Imajica

Source: Imajica

“Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Angels, Personality

“Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Context: "You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child."(But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.)

“Everything in life is luck.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Life

“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“Sex pretty much cures everything.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Sex

“Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.”

Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) Jewish diarist

Source: Lettres De Westerbork

Life, Beauty

“Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Money, Sadness

“Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Variant: You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon... everything's different.

Change

“Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Life, Dependency

“I'll kill for you, give up everything i own for you… but i won't give you up.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Variant: I'd kill for you, give up everything I own for you.... but I won't give you up.
Source: Reflected in You

“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

World, Angels

“She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.”

Edith Wharton book Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

“For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.

Truth, Star, Time

“Love makes everything complicated.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Love

“Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

Life, Question

“The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Girl, Boy, Change

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Learning

“Home is everything you can walk to.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Home

“She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.”

Jennifer Donnelly book The Tea Rose

Source: The Tea Rose

Life, Dreams, Parting

“After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Life, Dreams, Disappointment

“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?'
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)

Thinking

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.”

Aldous Huxley book The Perennial Philosophy

Source: The Perennial Philosophy

World

“After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Old Town Folks

Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 39 (p. 507) Sometimes paraphrased: "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." and "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn".
Context: When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, — and so, boys, go, and God bless you!

Time

“I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

Love, Understanding, Perfection

“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

World, Hope, Positive

“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

“How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia’s mother and father, because of her mother’s and father’s mothers and fathers.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“I could have. What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Variant: At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments
go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Change

“And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels…. And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Hope, Country

“When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

Love, Star, Light, Appearance

“What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? It's always an extreme."
"Because I don't do things in halves, mom. Especially when it comes to love.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

Love, Girl, Moms

“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

Source: Dry

Health

“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: My Life on the Road

People, Thinking

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Variant: Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and i learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Silence, Learning, Happy

“Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Women, Men

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”

Celeste Ng book Little Fires Everywhere

Source: Little Fires Everywhere

People, Way

“Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Life

“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon?… The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life, People, World, Hope

“Everything seems to be working." Except me. I'm broken.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“Each creature had something it excelled at, he supposed. Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else.”

Jim Butcher book The Aeronaut's Windlass

Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass

Cats

“Plus, I was about to spend six weeks with Christian Ozera. He was sarcastic, difficult, and made jokes about everything. Actually, he was a lot like me.
It was going to be a long six weeks.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Life, Feeling, Girl

“Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

People

“This is the trap of having something to live for:
Everything else seems lifeless.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“I did Google him, you know."
"Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search?”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Fated

Search, Change

“At the same time, we both pulled back briefly still oh so close. Everything in the word rested on that moment.
"We can't…" He told me.
"I know," I agreed.
Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time I knew there would be no turning back.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Time

“Where there is love, there is courage
Where there is courage, there is peace
Where there is peace, there is God
And when you have God, you have everything.”

Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace

Variant: Where there is love there is courage,
where there is courage there is peace,
where there is peace there is God.
And when you have God, you have everything.
Source: A Fatal Grace

Love, God, Peace, Courage

“And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.”

Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County

Source: The Bridges of Madison County

“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. VIII of X

“That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Change

“Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn’t look forced. And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

People, Smile, Thinking

“So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Abhorsen

“It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.”

Robert Silverberg Dying Inside

Source: Dying Inside

World, Color, Time

“Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"Anthem"
The Future (1992)
Variant: There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
Source: Selected Poems, 1956-1968
Context: Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

Light

“When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.”

Charles Frazier (1950) American writer

“I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Time

“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram