Haruki Murakami Quotes

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Fate does not always seek our consent.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

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

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

You can't really explain why things happen.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Fate does not seek our consent.

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.

Luck has nothing to do with it.

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.