Quotes about everything
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Anthony Doerr photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“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

Salman Rushdie photo

“Tragedy alters everything.”

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Mary E. Pearson photo
Clive Barker photo
Susanna Clarke photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“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.)

Donald J. Trump photo

“Everything in life is luck.”

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

“Sex pretty much cures everything.”

Source: Choke

Etty Hillesum photo

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

Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) Jewish diarist

Source: Lettres De Westerbork

Chuck Palahniuk photo

“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.

Sylvia Day photo

“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

William Faulkner photo
Edith Wharton photo
Garth Nix photo
Elie Wiesel photo

“Love makes everything complicated.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Robert Greene photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Jerry Spinelli photo

“Home is everything you can walk to.”

Source: Stargirl

Jennifer Donnelly photo
Khaled Hosseini photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Aldous Huxley photo
Harriet Beecher Stowe photo

“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.”

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!

Alice Hoffman photo
Calvin Coolidge photo

“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)
Celeste Ng photo
Raymond Carver photo

“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

Paulo Coelho photo

“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.”

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

“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

Dorothy Parker photo
Megan Whalen Turner photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Richelle Mead photo
Augusten Burroughs photo
Gloria Steinem photo
Helen Keller photo

“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.

Joss Whedon photo
Celeste Ng photo
Pablo Neruda photo
Yann Martel photo

“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

Jim Butcher photo
Richelle Mead photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Sarah Dessen photo
David Levithan photo
Alyson Nöel photo
Richelle Mead photo
Louise Penny photo

“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.”

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

Alan Moore photo

“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

Sarah Dessen photo
Khaled Hosseini photo
Garth Nix photo
Robert Silverberg photo
Leonard Cohen photo

“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.

Suzanne Collins photo
Rita Rudner photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Richard Bach photo
Rick Riordan photo
Jean Rhys photo

“Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.”

Source: Rules

Stephen R. Donaldson photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
J. Sheridan Le Fanu photo
Sylvia Day photo

“Take me. Take all of me. The good and the bad. Everything. Take it all.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Captivated by You

Eoin Colfer photo
Sue Grafton photo

“Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: C is for Corpse

Cassandra Clare photo
Jon Kabat-Zinn photo
Langston Hughes photo
Maya Angelou photo
Rachel Caine photo

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

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bitter Blood

E.E. Cummings photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Kim Harrison photo
Francesca Lia Block photo
Washington Irving photo

“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

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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.