Susanne Langer Quotes

I believe every one of us has a gift, I believe every one of us human beings has a path in this life, and it is up to each of us, through circumstance, through knowledge, through awareness, through luck - and luck does play a huge part - to hopefully achieve that path and walk the path and realize the gift.

I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

Every dog must have his day.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?

Chance, choice, and consequence are fundamental parts of existence and perfect fodder for a horror story - or any story, for that matter, that asks, 'How do you live through this? How does anyone live through this?'

I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.

I believe that destiny has a big role to play in everyone's life.

Whatever you're destined to do, you will be.

I believe in fate. I didn't set out to be a comedian at first. I'm still not sure if I am or not.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

We are immortal till our work is done.