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

“Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.”
Source: Midnight's Children

“If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.”
Source: The Kiss of Deception

“Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”
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.)
“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”
Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.”
Source: Lettres De Westerbork
“Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.”
Variant: You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon... everything's different.

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

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

“Love makes everything complicated.”

“After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”
Source: Dreamland (2000)

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!

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

“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.”
Source: Lover Reborn

Variant: Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and i learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
“Everything seems to be working." Except me. I'm broken.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”
Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. VIII of X

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

“Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Take me. Take all of me. The good and the bad. Everything. Take it all.”
Source: Captivated by You

“Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.”
Source: C is for Corpse
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

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

“Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.”

“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”
Source: A Widow for One Year (1998), part II, ch. 7

“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: Here we are living in a world of "identity crises," and most of us have no idea what an identity is.
Half the problem is that an identity is something which must be understood intuitively, rather than in terms of provable fact. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.