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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

You can't really explain why things happen.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.

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.

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

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?