Thornton Wilder Quotes

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

I totally believe in opportunities. I don't believe in accidents. I just don't.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

You dream what you're supposed to do.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

We either live with intention or exist by default.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

If everything happens for a reason, what's the reason?

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

I know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

What if destiny doesn't care?

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.