Games People Play Quotes

“In the game of life;
Sometimes we win,
Sometimes we loss,
Either ways, we should always keep playing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story.”
― Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It

“I’ve got a sweet tooth and you are my remedy
I’ve got a game that’s sort of like a parody
You be the Marilyn and I’ll be the Kennedy
We can kiss till our minds reach ecstasy
Stay up until sunrise and make love recklessly”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“I Had Experienced Lust Many Times Before..I Had Experienced Desires Before..But This Was Beyond That..This Was Like A Headon Collision..This Was Like Being Pulled Up In A Tornado, And This Was Like The Feeling Of Taking A Bungee Jump In An Unknown Valley!!”
― Shanaya Taneja

“Life's a lot like poker. You bet on some hands, you fold some. You win some hands, you lose some. But unlike poker, life is not a zero sum game. There's enough chips in the pot for everyone.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“So endgames are naturally messy.

They may not be very dynamic, but when an active war is shutting down, there is still a lot of cleaning up to do. It may sound grim, but that's what it looks like. There are broken things everywhere, wounds and corpses, general messiness. Things collapsing due to zemblanity forces that have been set in motion but are too large to control.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

“I Knew This Game, Had Played It Before And I Always Won..Most Guys Never Knew What I Wanted..But Maybe ‘HE’ Did !!”
― Shanaya Taneja, Games people Play

“People get addicted to games and they usually don't get addicted to jobs. If jobs become like games, just imagine how much invested and try hard focused on winning people would become. Either it's a simulation or not - you are playing the game unless you are dead already. More success means playing the game better than others.”
― Thomas Vato

“Don't play games if you can't afford to lose.”
― Germany Kent

“We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,” then strive to achieve it.”
― Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It

“Choosing a partner mainly for sex, without having much of a personal relationship, is like playing tiddly-winks instead of chess — because friendship is what provides any relationship with its complexity, substance, subtlety, sustainability and enjoyment.”
― George Hammond

“Games People Play

We played this game with all the fire we had,
but fate had carved its path before we met.
You, the maestro, weaving threads of triumph,
I, the faltering hand that grasped at air.

I had to lose—the board was never mine.
And so I fell, like autumn leaves in wind,
a whispered echo fading into dusk.

Farewell. Take all the spoils of games to come,
where others sit with trembling, hopeful hands.
I see their fate—eyes dim with quiet ruin,
their hollow laughter swallowed by the dark.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja