Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person. François de La Rochefoucauld
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis
Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Whatever I disliked, happened to me. Persian Proverb
O! my sister close thy door, and enough what happened to you. Arabic Proverb
What I wished for happened not - What God willed happened to a dot. Persian Proverb