Quotes about everything

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Source: Oryx and Crake

Mettre tout en équilibre, c&#x27;est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c&#x27;est mieux. <br class="br">Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874), Book VII, Chapter V http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Quatre-vingt-treize_-_III%2C_7#V_LE_CACHOT <br class="br">Ninety-Three (1874)

Source: A Night Like This

Source: Just Listen

Source: Captain's Fury

Source: Night (1960)

Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales

Source: The Diviners

Part One : The Crossroads, p. 7
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)

Source: City of Bones

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Source: The Pale King (2011)
Context: "Maybe it's not metaphysics. Maybe it's existential. I'm talking about the individual US citizen's deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we've lost one more day that will never come back and our childhoods are over and our adolescence and the vigor of youth and soon our adulthood, that everything we see around us all the time is decaying and passing, it's all passing away, and so are we, so am I, and given how fast the first forty-two years have shot by it's not going to be long before I too pass away, whoever imagined that there was a more truthful way to put it than "die," "pass away," the very sound of it makes me feel the way I feel at dusk on a wintry Sunday--... And not only that, but everybody who knows me or even knows I exist will die, and then everybody who knows those people and might even conceivably have even heard of me will die, and so on, and the gravestones and monuments we spend money to have pour in to make sure we're remembered, these'll last what-- a hundred years? two hundred?-- and they'll crumble, and the grass and insects my decomposition will go to feed will die, and their offspring, or if I'm cremated the trees that are nourished by my windblown ash will die or get cut down and decay, and my urn will decay, and that before maybe three of four generations it will be like I never existed, not only will I have passed away but it will be like I was never here, and people in 2104 or whatever will no more think of Stuart A. Nichols Jr. than you or I think of John T. Smith, 1790 to 1864, of Livingston, Virginia, or some such. That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine, in fact, probably that's why the manic US obsession with production, produce, produce, impact the world, contribute, shape things, to help distract us from how little and totally insignificant and temporary we are... The post-production capitalist has something to do with the death of civics. But so does fear of smallness and death and everything being on fire."

Source: Every Last One

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Source: The Final Empire

Source: Aleph

Source: Summer Sisters

Source: True Believer

Source: The Bell Jar

Source: The Kite Runner

The Books in My Life (1952) Preface (2nd edition. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 12)

Source: Handle with Care

Source: A Place Called Here

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: A Little Princess

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Selected Poems

Source: War and Peace

The earliest known occurance of a similar adage dates back to 1926, then apparently regarded as a common one of unknown origin. Its connection to Alexander Hamilton arose from confusion with its use in 1978 by a UK radio broadcaster also named Alex Hamilton.
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/18/stand-fall/#return-note-8222-15 Per QI

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: The Lollipop Shoes

Source: Angels Twice Descending

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.
Source: The Hunger Games

Source: The High Lord

Source: Open

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Clockwork

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Source: The Robber Bride

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 16, pp. 54–55

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: My Unfair Godmother

Source: Ham on Rye

Source: Someone Like You (1998)

Source: Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: Tiger Lily

Source: Norwegian Wood

Variant: Because you are alive, everything is possible.
Source: Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Source: Two Much (1975), Ch. 21

Source: Withering Tights

Source: The Alchemist

Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

Source: Pretties

Source: This Earth of Mankind

Source: Cold Mountain

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: Dandelion Wine

Source: Nausea

Source: Blue Bloods

Source: Dreamland (2000)

Source: The Bachman Books

Source: Black Heart

Source: Keeping the Moon

Source: The Madness Underneath

Source: The Red Pyramid

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Source: Ham on Rye

Source: The Memory of Running

Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Source: My Big TOE - The Complete Trilogy

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: 2010: Odyssey Two

Source: As quoted in Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections (1982), Vol. 2, edited by E. H. Mikhail, p. 186