Milan Kundera Quotes

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

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?'

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

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.

Much in our lives is chance.

True love comes when it will, not when it's called.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

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

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Chance is a second master.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.