Accidents Quote by Thomas Pynchon

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to…

— Louis Auchincloss

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one…

— Bernard Malamud

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will --…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

— Patrick Ness

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing…

— Aldous Huxley

For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.

— Neville Goddard

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

— LaToya Jackson

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for…

— Laurence Sterne

“If there is a single lesson I have learned, it is this: in life, we are destined to lose many things. That is the…

— William Ury

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a…

— Lord Chesterfield

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger,…

— Confucius

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he…

— Friedrich Schiller