Chance Meeting Quotes

• Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

  Haruki Murakami

  Karma, Things In Life, Events

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.33, Random House

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• There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Chance, Stranger

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.10, Google Publishing

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• You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Chance, Meetings, Knows

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• I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  People, Chance, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?

  Haruki Murakami

  Kids, Two, Scary

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• Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Opportunity, People

  Edgar Cayce (2006). “Soul & Spirit: Fully Understand Yourself and Your Life”, p.23, ARE Press

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• Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Dream, Events, Chance

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.44, Penguin

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• I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.

  Angela Lansbury

  Sublime, Roles, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it.
  Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time.
  We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.

  Simon Van Booy

  Queens, Kings, Mean

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.272, Oneworld Publications

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• I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  People, Everyday, Goes On

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• Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Important, Chance, Grew

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• We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Together, Band

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• Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Men, Simple

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.654, Macmillan

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• I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Believe, Book, Ideas

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• We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a "chance" meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered.

  Deb Caletti

  Should Have, People, New Life

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a chance meeting with a lady at Mariah Carey's record company who was here in our office, actually. And I pulled her in here to this very office that we're sitting in now, and I played her the clip of me and George Michael singing. And I was like, it's joyful. And that's what people want.

  James Corden

  Office, People, Singing

  "James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 8, 2016.

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• I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her,turn her to into a stranger, only not. So you want to hear the whole story. Why I swerved off the high road, hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to those coughing my dust, picked up speed no limits,no top end, just a high velocity rush to madness.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Who I Am, Dust

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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