Tao Lin Quotes

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

I could never be so lucky again

Fate laughs at probabilities.

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

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Accident is veiled necessity.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.