Novalis Quotes

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

There is always room for coincidence.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Is anything accidental?

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.