Charles Fort Quotes

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

I see a lot of similarities and coincidences in life, in general.

I always say there are no coincidences.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Coincidence is logical.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

I don't really believe in coincidence.

Sometimes we look at patterns, and we look at things that are happening, and sometimes you can't dismiss everything as a conspiracy.

It's kind of crazy how one thing can lead to another if you keep your eyes open to it.

The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence is probably as close as I'll get to having spirituality. I do see patterns in my life sometimes, and I am thrilled by what I see. I don't think I'm going to have any further shot at it after death, and I don't think there's anybody upstairs orchestrating it for me, but I do think it happens. If there are miracles in my life, they are rooted in the fact of coincidence.

It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

That's too coincidental to be a coincidence.

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

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

I don't believe in coincidences.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.