--- title: "13 Happened Things Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 13 Happened Things quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Happened Things sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/826/michael-grant-1391_fear_fear-was-about-possibilities-not-things_594414.png" --- > [Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-grant/fear-was-about-possibilities-not-things-that-happened-things-that/) [Michael Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-grant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/826/michael-grant-1391_fear_fear-was-about-possibilities-not-things_594414.png) > [“I've never really planned my life or set out to live. I happened; things happened to me. It's so with everyone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells-2/i-ve-never-really-planned-my-life-or-set-out-to-live-i-happened/) [H.G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b8/h-g-wells-2-1299_life_i-ve-never-really-planned-my-life-or-set_2057794.jpg) > [Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/everything-else-happened-why-not-the-things-that-could-have/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5d/jonathan-safran-foer-136_happened_everything-else-happened-why-not-the-thi_2813940.png) > [My writing is a product of how I would interact with things that have happened to me or things that have not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rupi-kaur/my-writing-is-a-product-of-how-i-would-interact-with-things-that-have/) [Rupi Kaur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rupi-kaur/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/rupi-kaur-909_how_my-writing-is-a-product-of-how-i-would-i_2578501.jpg) > [“Some things don't cange no mattered what's happened. even things that fade with time and distance aren't really ever lost.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gennifer-albin/some-things-don-t-cange-no-mattered-what-s-happened-even-things-that/) [Gennifer Albin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gennifer-albin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5f/gennifer-albin-33443_things_some-things-don-t-cange-no-mattered-what_2515614.jpg) > [So many things happened between us. Things I don't even want to repeat, but there's also many great memories...some bad, some sweet...but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/so-many-things-happened-between-us-things-i-don-t-even-want-to-repeat/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf8/anonymous-1_great-memories_so-many-things-happened-between-us-thing_2599094.jpg) > [In order to move on in our lives, sometimes we have to accept that we might never understand what has happened, some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-order-to-move-on-in-our-lives-sometimes-we-have-to-accept-that-we/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22f/anonymous-1_acceptance_in-order-to-move-on-in-our-lives-sometim_1982308.jpg) > [There was a man. And it happened--as such things often so happen--that this man we went back into his days that were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bell-wright/there-was-a-man-and-it-happened-as-such-things-often-so-happen-that/) [Harold Bell Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-bell-wright/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/harold-bell-wright-33246_again-and-again_there-was-a-man-and-it-happened-as-such_2053552.jpg) > [It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/it-had-long-since-come-to-my-attention-that-people-of-accomplishment-2/) [Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1d/leonardo-da-vinci-330_accomplishment_it-had-long-since-come-to-my-attention-t_1745603.jpg) > [“In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-hoffman/in-the-last-few-months-she-d-had-a-lot-of-time-to-consider-the-state/) [Alice Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-hoffman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/126/alice-hoffman-427_choices_in-the-last-few-months-she-d-had-a-lot-o_683929.jpg) > [So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cass-sunstein/so-you-could-often-say-things-are-terrible-and-that-accounts-for-what/) [Cass Sunstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cass-sunstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/cass-sunstein-7201_accounts_so-you-could-often-say-things-are-terrib_565668.jpg) > [I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-lawson/i-can-finally-see-that-all-the-terrible-parts-of-my-life-the/) [Jenny Lawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-lawson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b0/jenny-lawson-3391_different_i-can-finally-see-that-all-the-terrible_1651821.jpg) > [“Here the first of the things that happened, happened. The first of the things important enough to notice and to remember afterward,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornell-woolrich/here-the-first-of-the-things-that-happened-happened-the-first-of-the/) [Cornell Woolrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornell-woolrich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f35/cornell-woolrich-2734_apology_here-the-first-of-the-things-that-happen_1344445.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happened-things/#itemlist", "name": "Happened Things Quotes", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. 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The first of the things important enough to notice and to remember afterward, among a great many trifling but kindred ones that were not. Some so slight they were not more than gloating, zestful glints of eye or curt hurtful gestures. (Once he accidentally poured a spurt of scalding tea on the back of a waitress' wrist, by not waiting long enough for the waitress to withdraw her hand in setting the cup down, and by turning his head momentarily the other way. 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