Erin Morgenstern Quotes

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

You never know what's going to happen in the future.

One never knows what will happen in the future.

Nobody knows the future.

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

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

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

There's only so much you can control in life.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny

Man plans, but God decides.

History is totally unpredictable.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

Life is a school of probability