Quotes About Coincidence

"It's like, in that moment the whole Universe existed just to bring us together."

"It was a million tiny little things. When you added them all up, it just meant we were supposed to be together."

A million coincidences had to occur in order for you to exist

How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go up-stairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down, there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

Happenstance intersecting with received wisdom produces something entirely new and significant.

So there I am, wondering what to do, and I see you, and I see what you're carrying. And _that_ is why I came running after you. Because I do not believe in coincidence.

Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.

Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.

My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.

Siento que toda mi vida ha sido un azar. Momentos fortuitos de pérdida y conexión. En cambio, esta es la primera vez que siento que es el destino.

Huge bouts of déjà vu. Coincidences. Memories of things that hadn't happened yet. Time didn't run forwards any more. It was a solid thing you could press yourself against and feel it push back; a thick fluid, half-air, half-glass, that flowed both ways and sent ripples of recollection forwards and new events backwards so that new things I encountered, then, seemed souvenirs from the distant past.

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the event, but the event had to take place simply because it had to take place.

Why did it happen this way and not otherwise? Because this is how it happened.

To the question of what causes historic events another answer presents itself, namely, that the course of human events is predetermined from on high—depends on the coincidence of the wills of all who take part in the events, and that a Napoleon's influence on the course of these events is purely external and fictitious.

No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished.

It doesn't matter how anything happens.

Funny how life had its little ways of surprising you. Little quirks of fate.

It's funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. It's no coincidence these guys get in and get out.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

I don't believe in coincidences. Neither do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?

But the longer you live, the more you realize there are a lot of flukish things in this world.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.