Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

I believe in fate.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

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

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

I'm a fatalist.

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

I believe life is fated - what's going to happen will happen.

Free will is to mind, what chance is to matter

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.