Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

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

Our time on Earth is so random.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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

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.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

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.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Anything that can happen, will happen.