Quotes About Happenstance

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happenstance; hope and dread sprawl on top. Our days and nights are their endless orgies.

Was everything an accident of geography?

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

actual happiness only happens by accident

Their question was, Will we survive the camp? For, if not, all this suffering has no meaning. The question which beset me was, Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning . For, if not, the ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance-as whether one escapes or not-ultimately would not be worth living at all.

Their question was, "Will we survive the camp? For, if not, all this suffering has no meaning." The question which beset me was, "Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance—as whether one escapes or not—ultimately would not be worth living at all.

The question which beset me was, "Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance—as whether one escapes or not—ultimately would not be worth living at all.

Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance–as whether one escapes or not–ultimately would not be worth living at all.

Charise Mericle Harper

Murphy's Law doesn't mean bad stuff will happen," he explained gently, really wanting her to understand. "It means 'whatever can happen… will happen.' And that sounded just fine to us.

By many a happy accident.

fortuitous chance.

A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn't have done one thing to be proud of.

The long arm of coincidence.

Sometimes even in the most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good fortune.

How often in this life a mere accident may shape our whole future!

Then heaven bless it, and may it continue to bind indefinitely. Fate's happenstance may oft win more than toil, as the fellow said.

Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy.

If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?

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

It doesn't matter how anything happens.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence