Quotes about everything
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“I know the place.
It is true.
Everything we do
Corrects the space
Between death and me
And you.”

“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”

Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”
Variant: I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
Source: Every Day
Source: Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

“How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum

Variant: No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.
Source: The Trial (1920), Chapter 9

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”
“HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.”

“everything is relative. you, for instance, are my relative.”

“Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.”
Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
Source: House of Leaves
Source: Magic Strikes
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Source: The Duke's Perfect Wife

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)
Context: I watched an old American submarine movie on television. The creaking plot had the captain and first officer constantly at each other’s throat. The submarine was a fossil, and one guy had claustrophobia. But all that didn’t stop everything from working out well in the end. It was an everything-works-out-in-the-end-so-maybe-war’s-not-so-bad-after-all sort of film. One of these days they’ll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.”
Source: The Long Fall

“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
“I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.”
Source: Magic Burns

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“I'm fighting here, with everything I've got. Fight for me too.”
Source: Captivated by You

“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”
Source: War and Peace

“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”

“When I first read the dictionary, I thought it was a long poem about everything.”
I Have A Pony (1985)

“the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.”
Source: Clockwork Angel

“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.”
Source: My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Source: The Darkest Night

“… small helpings, no seconds, no snacking, and a little bit of everything. - Julia Child”
“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”
Poetry and Craft (1965)
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose

“Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.”
Source: Cosmopolis
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge