quotations about accidents
We thereby gladly forget that as a matter of fact everything in our life is accident from our very origin through the meeting of spermatozoa and ovum, accident, which nevertheless participates in the lawfulness and fatalities of nature, and lacks only the connection to our wishes and illusions.
SIGMUND FREUD
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.
MOIRA FOWLEY-DOYLE
The Accident Season
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.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Before Watchmen
Blinking lights on the highway cars
Stopping one by one
Get a look at the accident
Didn't see that one coming
EELS
"Blinking Lights (For Me)"
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER
A History of Science and Its Relations with Philosophy and Religion
Accidents, accidents will happen.
GEORGE COLMAN
The Deuce is in Him
For things said false and never meant,
Do oft prove true by accident.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Satire Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man
The man of method may channel all his spiritual currents towards productive ends, be relentless in his suppression of predilection and propensity, but when accident upsets the flow of his life, he finds himself drowning in a sea of tedium, hatred, and rage.
JUAN FILLOY
Op Oloop
Sometimes things go right by accident, and you are left with the dangerous illusion that it was your doing.
D. MICHAEL ABRASHOFF
It's Your Ship
ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong time.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
attributed, "Accidentally Climbing a Mountain", October 8, 2013
I think it a very happy accident.
CERVANTES
Don Quixote
We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe.
RICK YANCEY
The Last Star
Your life is built on accidents
Like meeting me
You write everything down in your grocery list
People do this
Even insects buzz like airplanes
Why can't we
Fly away?
I'm going as far as I can go
YOLANDA ADAMS
"Closer"
After all accidents never happen
Could have planned it all
Precognition in my ears
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
BLONDIE
"Accidents Never Happen"
Everyone is practicing,
But this world's an accident.
I was the fool because I thought
I thought the world
Turns out the world thought me
It's all the other way round
We're upside down
PEARL JAM
"Cropduster"
God overrules all accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His service.
AURELIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Nothing under the sun is accidental.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING
Emilia Galotti
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The Death of Wallenstein
What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Fiesco