Dan Brown Quotes

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

I see a lot of similarities and coincidences in life, in general.

And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.

I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason.

I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.

The 'Star Wars' saga is about a series of seemingly chance encounters. They impact the destiny of everyone involved.

Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.

I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.

It's kind of crazy how one thing can lead to another if you keep your eyes open to it.

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.

That's too coincidental to be a coincidence.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.