Quotes about everything
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“Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

Help

“Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Forgetting

“There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.”

Barry Lopez (1945) American writer

“I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and,
sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every
painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.”

Michele Bardsley (1970) American writer

Source: Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

Life, Pain, Books, Knowledge

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Time

“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”

Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery

Source: Up from Slavery

People, Idea, Patience

“The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Problem, Indecision

“A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Way, Time

“In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Girl, Sleep, Chance

“You were right,” she said. “You were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Carpe Corpus

Love

“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Peace

“But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing."
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling.
Everything else will be measured against it.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Hope, Feeling

“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Love, Health, Food, Light

“Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

“How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can’t.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

“They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that.
But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Way

“Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Light

“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Understanding, Science

“Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

“Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.”

Paris Hilton (1981) American socialite

Variant: Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Life

“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Love

“I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Feeling

“As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Alcohol

“Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer

World

“I've often lost myself,
in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”

Sidney Sheldon book Bloodline

Source: Bloodline

Hunger, Understanding

“For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

“Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed”

Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City

Source: Bright Lights, Big City

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: My Story

Children, People, Question

“Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.”

Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007) Polish historian

People, Literature

“All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.”

Iain Banks book The Wasp Factory

Source: The Wasp Factory

People, Stupidity, Strong, Parting

“Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

Stupidity

“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.”

Thomas Pynchon (1937) American novelist

Source: Slow Learner: Early Stories

Life, Thinking

“Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”

Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Ancient Rome

“In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?"
"No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Happiness, Truth, Books

“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Source: Stranger than Fiction

“I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: Talk Before Sleep

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Universe, Dance

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”

Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

People, Understanding

“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Forgetting

“My dad always used to say that with everything in life, there’s a game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Life, Game, Change, Time

“When a woman acts as though she’s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness (1943)

World

“Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Fear

“She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord… I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.”

Marilynne Robinson Home

Source: Home

Fear, Heart

“Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?”

Agatha Christie book Death on the Nile

Source: Death on the Nile

Death, World, Personality

“Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.”

Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) Novelist, journalist

Source: Short Stories

Love, World

“Everything in life is just for a while.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

Life

“We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Age

“But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Truth, Lie, Hurt

“To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Feeling

“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.”

John Lescroart (1948) Novelist, screenwriter

Source: A Plague of Secrets

Law

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Learning, Time

“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him — that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

God

“On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.”

Pramoedya Ananta Toer book Bumi Manusia

Source: Bumi Manusia

Life, Understanding, Knowledge

“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Learning

“Read everything and be kind.”

Penn Jillette (1955) American magician

Reading

“When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

God, Soul, Courage, Joy

“Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

describing his experiment with mescaline, p. 22-24
The Doors of Perception (1954)
Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Context: Reflecting on my experience, I find myself agreeing with the eminent Cambridge philosopher, Dr. C. D. Broad, “that we should do well to consider much more seriously than we have hitherto been inclined to do the type of theory which Bergson put forward in connection with memory and sense perception. The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.” According to such a theory, each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born—the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things. That which, in the language of religion, is called “this world” is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were, petrified by language. The various “other worlds,” with which human beings erratically make contact are so many elements in the totality of the awareness belonging to Mind at Large. Most people, most of the time, know only what comes through the reducing valve and is consecrated as genuinely real by the local language. Certain persons, however, seem to be born with a kind of by-pass that circumvents the reducing valve. In others temporary by-passes may be acquired either spontaneously, or as the result of deliberate “spiritual exercises,” or through hypnosis, or by means of drugs. Through these permanent or temporary by-passes there flows, not indeed the perception “of everything that is happening everywhere in the universe” (for the by-pass does not abolish the reducing valve, which still excludes the total content of Mind at Large), but something more than, and above all something different from, the carefully selected utilitarian material which our narrowed, individual minds regard as a complete, or at least sufficient, picture of reality.

Universe, Personality