It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

The line weighs two competing discomforts: accepting that events may be random, and accepting any alternative explanation (fate, providence, cosmic design) that can feel even less plausible. It captures a modern, skeptical sensibility in which meaning is desired but difficult to justify intellectually. The quote’s force comes from its paradox: “coincidence” is unsatisfying because it denies narrative purpose, yet belief in purpose can require leaps of faith that feel harder still. Read this way, it expresses an existential tension—humans are meaning-making creatures living in a world that may not reliably supply meaning—while also hinting at humility about what we can truly know.