ACCIDENT QUOTES

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)"


Accidents, accidents will happen.

GEORGE COLMAN

The Deuce is in Him


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


ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


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


For things said false and never meant,
Do oft prove true by accident.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Satire Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man


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


I think it a very happy accident.

CERVANTES

Don Quixote


Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong time.

DEJAN STOJANOVIC

attributed, "Accidentally Climbing a Mountain", October 8, 2013


We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe.

RICK YANCEY

The Last Star


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"


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"


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


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


Nothing under the sun is accidental.

GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING

Emilia Galotti


What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Fiesco