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Quotes About Coincidence

For me, each journey to Romania is also a journey into another time, in which I never knew which events in my life were coincidence and which were staged. This is why I have, in every public statement I have made, demanded access to the secret files kept on me which, under various pretexts, have invariably been denied me.
~ Herta Muller
I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.
~ Brooklyn Decker
That left either magical powers or coincidence, and although I have nothing at all against Harry Potter, coincidence got my vote.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Coincidence is always possible. Strange and improbable things happen every day, and we accept them and simply scratch our heads like rubes in the big city, and say, "Gollee, ain't that somethin'.
~ Jeff Lindsay
You fell into your life, the same way I fell into mine.
~ Jennifer Weiner
That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
~ Paul Auster
But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.
~ Sarah Dessen
Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.
~ Tavi Gevinson
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
~ Oliver Evans
In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.
~ Jane Lindskold
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~ Tzvetan Todorov
Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!
~ Unknown
The right people will always find you at the right time.
~ Unknown
if you watch trillions of things, you will often see one-in-a-million coincidences.
~ Vernor Vinge
My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
~ Victor Cruz
I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.
~ Samantha Power
Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
~ Carl Jung
How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?
~ David Gilmour
A fool must now and then be right, by chance
~ William Cowper
Relationships are never chance events.
~ Keith Ablow
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson