Quotes About Coincidence

Personally, I believe certain things are meant to be and "coincidence" is far too casual a word for what happens to many of us.

How weird man that your name is Howard Mann

Il n'y a pas de hasard, il n'y a que des méchancetés du sort et ses perfidies, préparées de longue main, n'ont cette apparence fortuite que parce que les dessous nous en échappent.

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

Y mirá que apenas nos conocíamos y ya la vida urdía lo necesario para desencontrarnos minuciosamente.

Y debo decir que confío plenamente en la casualidad de haberte conocido. Que nunca intentaré olvidarte, y que si lo hiciera, no lo conseguiría.

Apenas nos conocíamos y ya la vida urdía lo necesario para desencontrarnos minuciosamente.

Un encuentro casual era lo menos casual en nuestras vidas

Y era tan natural cruzar la calle, subir los peldaños del puente, entrar en su delgada cintura y acercarme a la Maga que sonreía sin sorpresa, convencida como yo de que un encuentro casual era lo menos casual en nuestras vidas, y que la gente que se da citas precisas es la misma que necesita papel rayado para escribirse o que aprieta desde abajo el tubo de dentífrico.

con mi mano en tu cara, y que por un azar que no busco comprender coincide exactamente con tu boca que sonríe por debajo de la que mi mano te dibuja.

Y mira que apenas nos conocíamos y ya la vida urdía lo necesario para desencontrarnos minuciosamente.

convencida como yo de que un encuentro casual era lo menos casual en nuestras vidas

Y era tan natural cruzar la calle, subir los peldaños del puente, entrar en su delgada cintura y acercarme a la Maga que sonreía sin sorpresa, convencida como yo de que un encuentro casual era lo menos casual en nuestras vidas

Nada coincide siendo igual, todo nace de nuevo siendo inmortal, el amor juega a inventarse, huye de sí mismo para volver en su espiral sobrecogedora.

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more? I'll tell you what I see, Peter. A clear path. More than that. A true path.

You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

I think that's all the facts I can remember. If you like we can talk a bit more about metaphysics, or I can tell you some stories about my life as a soldier; you could go back and check the references, to give you an idea of the quality of my memory and powers of observation. I'd rather not, though, since you might use them to work out who I could be; somebody important who was at the same battles as I was. Purely by coincidence, you understand.

Of course, a story always begins with such a coincidence.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

I share a birthday with Max Beesley and James Nesbitt.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.