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

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

[W]hat is called chance is the instrument of Providence… – Horace Walpole, 1777 letter to Countess of Ossory

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com