Happenstance Quotes

“Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.”
― Anthony Liccione

“How much of your life had been happenstance? How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky? But then, weren’t all lives that way? Who could say, in the end, that they had chosen any of it?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“You trip over a word while carrying
a tray of vocabulary out to the pool
only to discover that broken glass
is a good topic.”
― Billy Collins, The Apple that Astonished Paris

“I don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring, what a year from now is going to be like. Hell, we may end up killing each other over something stupid next week. It’s a possibility. But all I do know is what I feel for you isn’t going anywhere.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next. It gave him the sensation that he was tottering on the tip of a flagpole. He was poised on circumstance.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Round House

“Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I simply can’t look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“After all, one doesn't choose his culture nearly as much as one trips and falls into it.”
― Sherman Alexie, War Dances

“Goldfinger said, "Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

“Happenstance is fading, magic is fading. Lady Luck’s prophecy is coming true, and she saw you, Nova.”
― M.J. Irving, Nova's Quest for the Enchanted Chalice

“Are we so patently ignorant as to believe that today just happened? For the incalculable number of complexities inherent in a single day are leagues beyond the reach of mere happenstance, and the threads that seamlessly tie these complexities together are beyond coincidence of the most fantastic sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Necessity knows no magic formulae—they are all left to chance.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“A branch that falls from a tree can only be a widow-maker if you’re under it at the point that it falls, and you were married before it fell. Otherwise, it’s just a happenstance meeting with a branch.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When life gets you down, just say:
“Life, is truth your name, or are you gay?”;
when it replies: “The Life am I.”,
your swift response: “Your path I try.”;
live every moment, that happened, just once,
to save in the rye, yours forever the stance,
think like rain, to clean each heart,
once is always, if good is your part…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“A person of determination lives a life of deliberate happenstance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is difficult to assume that nature itself created that which was beyond itself and then integrated such abilities into itself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough