6 Quotes Tagged: accidents

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.

To see an almost certain horrible death — you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/ subconsciously for a spectacular accident — and then to be whisked away from it so suddenly — brought to the edge of tragedy, and then to have their better natures win out, showing them how much nicer they always /knew/ they were — that was the supreme thrill.

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

Accidents — you never have them till you’re having them.” — Eeyore

Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.