#coincidences

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#chains-of-events #commonplaces-of-existence #cross-purposes #fiction #on-fiction

In Jewish history there are no coincidences. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#history #jewish

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#consciousness #explains #infinite #itself #regress

Coincidences are spiritual puns. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#puns #spiritual

Is it possible that there are no coincidences? ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#possible

Coincidences link us to the unknown and weave us into it. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #supernatural #synchronicity

But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything. ↗

— Julie Gittus

#coincidences #life #life

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#fury #happen #life #novels #real

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#another #between #coincidences #describe #easily

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#around #aware #coincidences #dreams #emotions