Quotes About Occurrence

My mind is like a pond without ripples. Your mind is full of waves because you feel separated from, and often threatened by, an unplanned, unwelcome occurrence. Your mind is like a pond into which someone has just dropped a boulder!

It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.

Could Have" by the Polish Nobel Laureate Wis?awa Szymborska: "It could have happened. / It had to happen. / It happened earlier. Later. / Nearer. Farther off. / It happened, but not to you." The poet goes on to contemplate the nature of luck. "You were in luck—there was a forest. / You were in luck—there were no trees. / You were in luck—a rake, a hook, a beam, a brake, / a jamb, a turn, a quarter-inch, an instant.

I reached out for something else and found it: the red croquet mallet, just occurring there on the ground like some easy device, some plot element stashed there for the big finale.

Statistically, almost nobody ever wins the lottery. Statistically, terrorist attacks almost never happen.

Before something happens in the realm of calmness, we do not feel the calmness; only when something happens within it do we find the calmness.

Surprise jolts us to attention. Surprise is triggered when our schemas fail, and it prepares us to understand why the failure occurred.

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

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.

It's called Littlewood's law.

The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as occurring in some kind of vacuum - because of slavery.

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

History is happening here and now.

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

Todo lo que sucede una vez puede que no suceda nunca más. Pero todo lo que sucede dos veces, sucederá, ciertamente, una tercera.»

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

So it was a true sunrise, where the colors changed at first subtly and then suddenly transformed the heavens in a way that no other occurrence could. Short of a nuclear bomb and its towering mushroom cloud. Yet both were transformative in their own right. One side of the world was lit, the other enveloped in blackness. The bomb's kiss was for real. The sun's movement was a metaphor for either darkness descending or light arising.

There are no coincidences. All you needed was more in-depth investigation to show that there are no coincidences.

Solar eclipses occur around two to five times per year but the area on the ground covered by the totality is very small, so in any given location on Earth a total eclipse will only happen once every 360 years.

Perhaps what those who meditate today are seeking is a state that our ancestors would have considered their birthright, a nightly occurrence.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Everything that happens is always simple. And there's a principle to how things proceed, assuming that they last.