Sherwood Anderson Quotes

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

Everyone has a choice. (Kiara) No, princess, they don’t. Choices aren’t always up to us. Life and circumstances can shred even the stoutest soul. No matter how pure and untainted you think you are, I promise you that you, too, can be shoved into the darkness, just like we were. (Syn)

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Our time on Earth is so random.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

Life takes you down weird paths.

To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.