Quotes About Chance

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

There's no such thing as effortless beauty--you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful--lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don't meet, we take the wrong turning, and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the 'right road' and it leads nowhere.

Yes I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream.

fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

There are dreamers and poets and landscape painters with dirty noses and wanderers like me who came here by chance and never left. They are all looking for something, travelling the world and the seven seas but looking for a reason to stay.

We gamble with the hope of winning, but it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are called weakness or power, wealth or poverty, human establishments appear at first glance to be based on piles of shifting sand.

Las óperas de Rameau empezaban a meter ruido y dieron a conocer sus obras teóricas, que, habiendo permanecido ignoradas, poseían muy pocos. Por casualidad oí hablar de su Tratado de la armonía

In giving too much weight to prudence one doesn't make enough allowance for the possibility of good luck.

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. I leaned back and closed my eyes. But the images, forewarned, immediately leaped up and filled my closed eyes with existences: existence is a fullness which man can never abandon. Strange

Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. I

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.