Quotes about everything

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“Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.”

“The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.”

“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

“Power isn't everything… its the only thing.”

“Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.”

“Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.”

“I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog.”

“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”

“Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change.”

“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”

“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.”

“I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.”

“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.”

“She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”

“She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed.”

“I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.”

“Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.”

“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, for, everything around you.”

“I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I’ve lost everything, I find there’s still something else to lose.”

“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”

“As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.”

“So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know….. what truly matters….”

“You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.”

“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

“From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”

“Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.”

“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”

“Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.”

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”

“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

“Muriel, you're not a convenience. I'd walk across a mile of cut glass in my bare feet to hold your hand and talk to you for one hour. You're everything to me.--Walt”

“When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.”

“When I was your age… I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.”

“I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap. It cheapens the giver and the recipient.”

“It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.”

“I changed the world; the world changed me.
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

“Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.”

“The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.”

“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”

“How can you, of all people, say everything will be alright?"
He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm sure things will just get worse,' right?”

“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.”

“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.”

“I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.”

“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

“If everything is important, then nothing is.”

“…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.”

“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”

“My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven.”

“Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.”

“In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”

“I cry to let everything out”

“everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale;”

“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”

“Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.”

“When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.”

“Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.”

“Everything is randomly connected.”

“It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.”

“… and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.”

“As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”

“I wonder when you stopped telling me everything Yuki. In ten years, that`s the only thing that has ever changed.”

“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”

“Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.”

“To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.”

“Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.”

“What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!”

“Adrian," she interrupted. "Didn't you just say I'm brilliant and always know everything? Then trust me on this."
"Always," I said, letting her pull me back down to her. "Always.”

“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”

“What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all”

“honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.”

“There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours”

“Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.”

“Everything is as it should be.”

“I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.”

“There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.”

“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.”

“Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.”

“But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.”

“I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.”

“And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me… everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent.”

“He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.”

“Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!”

“If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.”

“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”

“Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”

“What Strider thinks of himself "He was too intense, too jaded, too warped and too… everything for most women to take for long. But so what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.”

“People always try to do the right thing.. after they've tried everything else.”

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

“I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”

“He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.”

“Why do we embroider everything we say

with special emphasis

when all we really need to do

is simply say what

needs to he said?

Of course

the fact is

that there is very little that needs

to be said.”

“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”

“My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, ’cause I’m just funny that way.”