Quotes about everything
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Charles Bukowski photo
Harold Pinter photo
Janet Fitch photo
Frances Hodgson Burnett photo
Jane Austen photo

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

Julian of Norwich photo
Will Durant photo

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)

“I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.”

Adeline Yen Mah (1937) Author and physician

Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

David Levithan photo

“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

Diana Gabaldon photo

“The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about “it” is in your mind and your
to do with as you like. Conceptualization is art, and YOU ARE THE ARTIST”

Gregory Hill (1941–2000) American writer and founder of Discordianism

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

“… talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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Baruch Spinoza photo

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”

Source: Ethics

Umberto Eco photo
Albert Einstein photo

“Of course. You get everything from books.”

Source: Out of Oz

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“… 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”

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

Joseph Campbell photo

“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

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

P.G. Wodehouse photo
Tess Gerritsen photo

“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”

Source: The Sinner

Ernest Hemingway photo
Kim Harrison photo

“Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

Anne Rice photo
Mark Z. Danielewski photo
W.S. Merwin photo
Anne Lamott photo

“Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Wayne W. Dyer photo
D.H. Lawrence photo
Wayne W. Dyer photo
Elizabeth Gilbert photo
Jeffrey R. Holland photo
Haruki Murakami photo

“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.”

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.

Joseph Heller photo
Philip K. Dick photo
Frances Hodgson Burnett photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Sarah Dessen photo
Nick Hornby photo

“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”

Source: High Fidelity

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Walter Mosley photo

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.”

Walter Mosley (1952) American writer

Source: The Long Fall

Margaret Atwood photo
Elizabeth Gilbert photo

“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.”

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…

Cheryl Strayed photo
Philip K. Dick photo
Jenny Han photo

“I hated him more than anything. I loved him more than anything. Because, he was everything. And I hated that, too.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Bette Davis photo
Allen Ginsberg photo
Rick Riordan photo

“I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

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Miranda July photo
Sylvia Day photo

“I'm fighting here, with everything I've got. Fight for me too.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Captivated by You

Stephen King photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Margaret Atwood photo
Henry Winkler photo
Oprah Winfrey photo

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

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Paulo Coelho photo
Steven Wright photo

“When I first read the dictionary, I thought it was a long poem about everything.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

I Have A Pony (1985)

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Alan Moore photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Anne Rice photo
Patti Smith photo

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”

Source: Just Kids

Alice Hoffman photo
Nikos Kazantzakis photo
William Saroyan photo

“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Source: My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

Chuck Palahniuk photo
Robert Fulghum photo
Mary E. Pearson photo

“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Poetry and Craft (1965)
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose

Terry Goodkind photo
Margaret Atwood photo

“The proper study of Mankind is Everything.”

Source: Oryx and Crake

Sarah Dessen photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo

“Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Sarah Dessen photo
Rick Riordan photo