Causes Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect…

— Rabih Alameddine

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the…

— Duncan J. Watts

I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening…

— Noam Chomsky

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

— Barbara Sher

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

...I dabble in causes and effects.

— Gregory Maguire

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

— Pearl S. Buck

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Circumstances can have a motive force by which they bring about events without aid of human imagination or apprehension. On such occasions you yourself…

— Karen Blixen

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

— Emile M. Cioran

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

— Elie Wiesel

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

— Isabelle Holland