Whose madness was a challenge hurled at fate… – Edgar Fawcett, “At a Window,” Songs of Doubt and Dream, 1891

You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he’ll do you one better and he’ll kick a whole wall down. – Glee, “Furt” (season 2, episode 8, original airdate November 23, 2010), written

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. – Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949