James Lee Burke Quotes

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

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

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

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

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

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.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.