Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

It's funny how you never know who you're going to share your life with.

Everything is destined, I believe... People you meet and end up marrying.

Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

You can't decide whom to fall in love with. It just happens.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

I was already set for life when I met her.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

I am a great believer in luck.

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

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

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.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.