Accident Quotes

1026 Accident quotes by 833 unique authors

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only… — Edna O'Brien
I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out… — Jennifer McMahon
If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is… — Stephen King
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in… — Stephen King
history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills… — Janet Fitch
Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here… — Henry Miller
Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself… — Gregory Maguire
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,… — Terry Pratchett
Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow. — Alice Sebold
If you've never woken up from a car accident to discover that your wife is dead and you're an animated, rotting corpse, then you probably… — S.G. Browne
The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its… — Denis Johnson
We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief.… — Gregory Maguire
What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been… — Margaret Atwood
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if… — Henry David Thoreau
They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No.… — Ray Bradbury
How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or… — Michael Ondaatje
In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how… — Stephenie Meyer
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate… — Jane Hamilton
It takes two to make an accident. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and… — David Guterson
Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which… — Louis de Bernieres
At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally… — William Carlos Williams
But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front… — Jodi Picoult
What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It… — Sloane Crosley
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.… — Hermann Hesse

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