I can understand the world as the result of muddle and accident, but if it is the result of a plan, it has to be the plan of a fiend. –Bertrand Russell
Wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them? --J. M. Straczynski
God is subtle, but he is not malicious. –Albert Einstein
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms of human life by incidents which in fact involve unhappiness. For it is only by them that the futility of escape can be made evident in the drama. --Alfred North Whitehead
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments. –Joseph Addison
It is enough that the arrows fit exactly in the wounds that they have made. –Franz Kafka
