“By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream”
Quotes about everything
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Oskar's grandmother
"My Feelings" (p. 314)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I said, I want to tell you something She said, you can tell me tomorrow I had never told her how much I loved her. She was my sister. We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. I thought about waking her. But it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. I love you. Grandma.
Tolstoy's Diaries (1985) edited and translated by R. F. Christian. London: Athlone Press, Vol 2, p. 512
Context: People usually think that progress consists in the increase of knowledge, in the improvement of life, but that isn't so. Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. The truth is always accessible to a man. It can't be otherwise, because a man's soul is a divine spark, the truth itself. It's only a matter of removing from this divine spark (the truth) everything that obscures it. Progress consists, not in the increase of truth, but in freeing it from its wrappings. The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold.
“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”
Source: Runemarks
“But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?”
Source: Then Comes Seduction
Variant: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
“With me, everything turns into mathematics.”
Mais apud me omnia fiunt Mathematicè in Natura More closely translated as: but in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. Note: "Mais" is French for "but" and the "but in my opinion" comes from the context of the original conversation. apud me omnia fiunt Mathematicè in Natura is in latin. Sometimes the Latin version is incorrectly quoted as Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt. Sources: Correspondence with Mersenne http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3aDescartes_-_%C5%92uvres,_%C3%A9d._Adam_et_Tannery,_III.djvu/48 note for line 7 (1640), page 36, Die Wiener Zeit http://books.google.com/books?id=9Xh3fVZLCycC&pg=PA532&lpg=PA532&dq=%22Omnia+apud+me+mathematica+fiunt%22+original+zitat&source=bl&ots=CgQOrveRiM&sig=WFHwIK20r5vRZ66FwCaxo857LCU&hl=de&sa=X&ei=_Wf2UcHlJYbfsgaf1IHABg#v=onepage&q=%22Omnia%20apud%20me%20mathematica%20fiunt%22%20original%20zitat&f=false page 532 (2008); StackExchange Math Q/A Where did Descartes write... http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/454599/where-did-descartes-write-with-me-everything-turns-into-mathematics?noredirect=1#comment978229_454599
“Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.”
“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”
Book II, Ch. 17.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“It was not enough.
It was too much.
It was everything.”
Source: Lucky in Love
“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”
Source: Night World, No. 1
“Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.”
Source: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!
“Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”
Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey
“When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.”
“Everything seems simpler from a distance.”
Source: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
“To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
“…it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”
'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.In the Cathedral
Source: The Trial (1920), Chapter 9
“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”
Variant: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die.
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.
Source: Sabriel
Context: 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.
“There must be more to life than having everything!”
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or, There Must Be More to Life (1967)
Source: Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”
Source: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”
Source: Labor Day
Source: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.”
Source: Get A Clue
“Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.”
Source: My Name Is Mina
Source: The Essays: A Selection
“How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”
Source: City of Bones
“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight, p. 4