Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

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

You can't really explain why things happen.

I believe in fate.

There's no such thing as accidents.

The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules

Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Anything that happens, happens.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.