Dice Quotes

“Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“What do the dice say?"
Dice say nothing. They are dice."
Why roll'em, then?"
They are dice. What else would I do with them?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs’ turn to roll the dice.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human

“I took Sin on faith, but if faith were money, fools would be billionaires.”
― Nina Malkin, Swoon

“You learn about fight or flight, but no one ever mentions the third alliterative option - freeze.”
― Nina Malkin, Swoon

“With determination and dice, I am God.”
― Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man

“I know you not quite well
Yet I foolishly surrender my mind to you.
Slowly and carefully you have cast a spell
Now my virgin heart only longs for you.
There is no need to push, I am already falling.
Once proudly tall, I’m no longer standing.
Knowing well that I am doomed to misery,
I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are - who knows?
Best not to speculate.
Thunder rolled...
It rolled a six.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Not without an army of ninjas behind me am I letting you into my house.”
― Nina Malkin, Swoon

“Don't roll the dice if you can't pay the price.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“the poem is a dice throw
on a patch of darkness
that may or may not glow”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“This is an old house. Among the oldest in the area, a white clapboard former farmhouse built in 1748. Fart on the porch and it rattles a floor board in the attic. -Dice (Swoon)”
― Nina Malkin

“Yes. I was, I see now, an asshole who wanted to roll the dice.”
― Colin Harrison

“Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables ― with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Matlock Paper

“Count Ambrosius was out of practice at chess. The usual game was dice, and he was not risking that against an infant soothsayer. Chess, being a matter of mathematics rather than magic, was less susceptible to the black arts.' --twelve-year-old Merlin, The Crystal Cave, p. 131 of 384”
― Mary Stewart, Merlin Trilogy Collection Vol (1-5) 5 Books Bundle By Mary Stewart (The Crystal Cave,The Wicked Day) Gift Wrapped Slipcase Specially For You

“The negotiators sat at the table, opened the cards, and threw some dice.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Life is worth living when God throws His Divine dice in your favor. HE has slow-stirred my life with Wisdom and discernment about all manners of people; which is no secret agent in my soul sauce, it brings flavor to the taste buds of God's blessings in my life with extra side orders of favor.”
― Tracey Bond

“Plan strategically and strike it once to win. You can achieve maximum dues with minimum dice if only you are willing to clearly calculate and throw your efforts with optimism!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.”
― John Hadac, The Project

“It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing everyone dies one moment, one way or other way.”
― Deyth Banger

“Life is worth living when God throws His Divine dice in your favor. HE has slow-stirred my life with Wisdom and discernment about all manners of people; which is no secret agent in my soul sauce, it brings flavour to the taste buds of God's blessings in my life with extra side orders of favor.”
― Tracey Bond

“In Altadas, chance was a loaded die—and just as often a loaded gun.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“Dicing is the danger of dice.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“There is no such thing as randomness. No one who could detect every force operating on a pair of dice would ever play dice games, because there would never be any doubt about the outcome. The randomness, such as it is, applies to our ignorance of the possible outcomes. It doesn’t apply to the outcomes themselves. They are 100% determined and are not random in the slightest. Scientists have become so confused by this that they now imagine that things really do happen randomly, i.e. for no reason at all.”
― Thomas Stark, God Is Mathematics: The Proofs of the Eternal Existence of Mathematics

“In the first half of the second millennium A.D., a revolutionary form of gambling swept across Asia and Europe. Allowing for infinitely more variation than dice games, capable of artistic embellishment and even educational lessons, playing cards would supplant dice as the favored gambling mechanism to most of the world.”
― David G. Schwartz, Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling

“Wavefunction collapse is anything other than “random”. If you could really see what was going on, you would see that nothing ever happens randomly, any more than a dice throw produces a genuinely randomly outcome (if you could see what was going on, all the forces in play, you would know exactly what the outcome would be). Sensory ignorance is not ontological uncertainty. Reality knows exactly what it is doing even if you don’t!”
― David Sinclair, Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War

“time,
often the unpredictable
wizard that rolls the
dice for us
and death, there,
like a
panther in the shadows,
discrete yet alert”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Memory