Ellen Hopkins Quotes

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.

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

Our time on Earth is so random.

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

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

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

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

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.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

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?

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.