Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.

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

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

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.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

You never know what is going to happen to you in life.

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

Life is so unpredictable.

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

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.