Quotes about everything page 23
“There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.”
David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.”
Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
To Varro, in Ad Familiares IX, 4
“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Charles Eames (1907–1978) American designer, half of duo the Eames
Attributed to Charles Eames in: Georgia Bizios (1998) Architecture Reading Lists and Course Outlines. p. 494
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
“Love can conquer everything but reality.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Variant: Love can conquer everything but reality. Which will win every stinking time.
Source: Lover Unleashed
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
“You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: The Joys of Love
“Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.”
Josh Groban (1981) American musician and actor
Inside Connection, February 2004
Variant: I can only say so much about how I feel. Music is what I always turned to when I was feeling a certain way. It's been my reason for everything.
“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Source: Point Omega
“The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.”
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Stephen King (1947) American author
Variant: When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989) Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.
Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine
Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 142
Context: “I don’t know,” he admitted.
“Well.” She started pouring tea. “To start things off, what do you think of the world?”
“I don’t know anything.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.”
“You seem to have learned quite a lot over the years.”
“It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it’s an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn’t life a play? Don’t I play it well?”
They both laughed quietly.
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Secret
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“I don'tto blow up everything I see… I just like to.”
Aaron Allston book Wraith Squadron
Source: Wraith Squadron
“Its only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything.”
Variant: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Source: Fight Club
“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
“I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”
Baz Luhrmann (1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer
“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Source: The Age of Innocence
“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician
Source: The 39 Steps
“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”
Isabel Allende book Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Source: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
“Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer”
Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock
Source: Finnikin of the Rock
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
A Memorable Fancy
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
“What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
Source: Along for the Ride
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Variant: A sign is anything that can be used to tell a lie.
Source: Trattato di semiotica generale (1975); [A Theory of Semiotics] (1976)
“How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes… dies.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Full Circle
“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”
Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves
Source: Laughable Loves
“You can do anything, but not everything.”
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 26
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye
Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man from feeling forever stunned and useless. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. God, they all had assholes and sexual organs and their mouths and their armpits. They shit and they chattered and they were dull as horse dung. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun. I would certainly never be able to be happy, to get married, I could never have children. Hell, I couldn't even get a job as a dishwasher.
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Facebook post, 4/8/15
“Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”
L. Frank Baum book The Marvelous Land of Oz
Source: The Marvelous Land of Oz
