#incidence

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#synchronicity #dreams

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#jealousy #pessimism #jealousy

Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface. ↗

— Dan Brown

#da-vinci-code #dan-brown #robert-langdon #the-da-vinci-code #life

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years. ↗

— Adam Ant

#guitar #i #may #minute #pen

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks. ↗

— Bjork

#cosmopolitan #england #first #i #i love

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#coincidence #consumed #dinners #eighteen #hours

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#biggest #books #closest #coincidence #countries

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#alice #back #bands #coincidence #doing

In Jewish history there are no coincidences. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#history #jewish

Coincidences are spiritual puns. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#puns #spiritual