Accidents Quotes

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.”
― Roman Payne

“Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash

“So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. They're both killed in accidents. Why are you so interested?"

"Because I don't like coincidence," Blunt replied. "In fact, I don't believe in coincidence. Where some
people see coincidence, I see conspiracy. That's my job.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Point Blank

“I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in... loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny?”
― C. JoyBell C.

“No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake.”
― John Paxton, On the Beach

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”
― Benoît B. Mandelbrot

“Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on
each of two major roads. “Welcome to winter,” one said. “When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Dangerous

“Prawda jest córą czasu poczętą w przypadkowym i krótkotrwałym romansie ze zbiegiem okoliczności.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Lux perpetua

“...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right...”
― Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

“Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People

“Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.”
― Tessa Hadley

“Get out, but don't cause unneeded accidents.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan on the oven in her flat. Apparently this happens all the time. The tenant in question is appearing as an extra -- playing one of the cooks.”
― Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

“BEING LATE

From where do simplicity and ease
In the movement of heavenly bodies derive?
It is precision.
Sun is never late to rise upon the Earth,
Moon is never late to cause the tides,
Earth is never late to greet the Sun and the Moon;
Thus, accidents are not accidents
But precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
Love is almost never simple;
Too often, feelings arrive too soon,
Waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
I wanted, too, to be simple and precise
Like the Sun,
Like the Moon,
Like the Earth
But the Earth was booked
Billions of years in advance;
Designed to meet all desires,
All arrivals, all sunrises, all sunsets,
All departures,
So I will have to be a little bit late.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Her head tilts up and her eyes meet mine properly for the first time - they're swimming in tears, but the terror from earlier is gone, replaced with confusion. 'I thought I was gonna die.'

I can't stop my own eyes from streaming, because I thought she was going to die, too.”
― Hannah Grace

“It would be so gross. And boring.'
'Yes, but sometimes you have to do boring things. If it drags on in your mind forever, that would be more boring than addressing it.”
― Jayne Tuttle, My Sweet Guillotine

“Accidents happen in the Rite, I'd only suggested when Cass's face had tightened with the news.

We won't dishonour the Rite by tampering with it, was his only reply.

Accidents happen in the skies all the time, then, Azriel had coolly countered.

If the whelp wants to bust my balls, he can grow a pair himself and do it to my face, Cassian had growled, and that was that.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight

“No matter what happened to you as long as you're still breathing, there is still a hope. Never give up.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Boeing 737 Max accidents are a reflection of modern USA corporate culture.”
― Steven Magee

“I blame the toxic stock market for the Boeing 737 Max accidents.”
― Steven Magee

“I blame the toxic USA management culture for the Boeing 737 Max accidents.”
― Steven Magee

“It is an act of love to demand accountability for the dead. And it takes rage to prevent the same accidents from happening again.”
― Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents

“Blame and the punishment that follows may satisfy the thirst for vengeance. But we cannot punish and learn at the same time. Punishment keeps in place the belief that the system is safe and the human error was the aberration. Learning requires recognizing the failures built into the system and changing the system. Punishment has nothing to do with prevention.”
― Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents

“If we calculated the possibility of a googolplex possible accidental universes (created somehow just of themselves) as ours is and divided it by the needed level of fine-tuning, we would find out that any imaginable number would not be enough to organize and sustain itself to the level of fine-tuning required for the Universe as ours is or any similar universe. In other words, its complexity, fine-tuning, or structure almost borders infinity. Any imaginable number of universes would not be enough to account for all possible variations needed for only one finely-tuned Universe.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE