73 Game Quotes

In the realm of gaming, certain quotes have transcended pixels and polygons to become iconic words etched into the hearts and minds of players. They capture the essence of the struggles, triumphs, and epic adventures that define our favorite virtual worlds. Whether it's a poignant line from a profound narrative or a simple phrase that encapsulates the spirit of a beloved character, these quotes resonate on a deeply personal level. In this collection, we’ve gathered the top 73 game quotes that not only celebrate the artistry of game writing but also remind us why we fell in love with these virtual landscapes in the first place. Prepare to embark on a journey through memorable words that have left an indelible mark on gaming culture.

1. “If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.” - Marcus Brigstocke

2. “Always trust computer games.” - Ridley Pearson

3. “All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elefant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains makkeable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. Generally, all the best mechanistic games - those which can be played in any sense "perfectly", such as a grid, Prallian scope, 'nkraytle, chess, Farnic dimensions - can be traced to civilisations lacking a realistic view of the universe (let alone the reality). They are also, I might add, invariably pre-machine-sentience societies. The very first-rank games acknowledge the element of chance, even if they rightly restrict raw luck. To attempt to construct a game on any other lines, no matter how complicated and subtle the rules are, and regardless of the scale and differentiation of the playing volume and the variety of the powers and attibutes of the pieces, is inevitably to schackle oneself to a conspectus which is not merely socially but techno-philosophically lagging several ages behind our own. As a historical exercise it might have some value, As a work of the intellect, it's just a waste of time. If you want to make something old-fashioned, why not build a wooden sailing boat, or a steam engine? They're just as complicated and demanding as a mechanistic game, and you'll keep fit at the same time.” - Iain M. Banks

4. “He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game.” - Sheri S. Tepper

5. “The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.” - Henry Jenkins

6. “It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans. ” - Robert Lynd

7. “Life is more fun if you play games.” - Roald Dahl

8. “You're lucky I was on that roof all day. That old man... he was trying to sell you a Sega product.” - Harvard Lampoon

9. “There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.” - Vera Nazarian

10. “Their only chance to mix with royalty was while they played Bezique. They never played any other game but this one that had grown out of the French court: it was the game of the cavaliers, a game of waiting between battles.” - Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

11. “This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.” - Melissa de la Cruz

12. “Food to eat and games to play.Tell me why, tell me why.Serve it out and eat it up.Have a try, have a try.” - Brian Jacques

13. “Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.” - Edward FitzGerald

14. “Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are only means to an end, to allow your territory to survive. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the game of go is that it has been proven that in order to win, you must live, but you must also allow the other player to live. Players who are too greedy will lose: it is a subtle game of equilibrium, where you have to get ahead without crushing the other player. In the end, life and death are only the consequences of how well or how poorly you have made your construction. This is what one of Taniguchi's characters says: you live, you die, these are consequences. It's a proverb for playing go, and for life.” - Muriel Barbery

15. “Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.” - Umberto Eco

16. “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!” - Benjamin Franklin

17. “I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.” - Demetri Martin

18. “You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.” - Patricia Briggs

19. “Games are the most elevated form of investigation.” - Alfred Einstein

20. “All other trades are contained in that of war.Is that why war endures?No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.That's your notion.The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.” - Cormac McCarthy

21. “Games lubricate the body and mind.” - Benjamin Franklin

22. “She's Prim's size in diameter.” - Suzanne Collins

23. “They wouldn't let me play; only Alice would play games with me anymore.” - Stephenie Meyer

24. “How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.” - Caroline Stevermer

25. “hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.” - Suzanne Collins

26. “I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.” - Suzanne Collins

27. “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.” - Shannon Alder

28. “I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand.” - Shannon Alder

29. “He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game.” - Jamie Weise

30. “A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.” - Shigeru Miyamoto

31. “It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.” - D.W. Winnicott

32. “A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” - James P. Carse

33. “In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.” - Ernest Cline

34. “If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.” - Zenna Henderson

35. “When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.” - Catherynne M. Valente

36. “I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me.Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pairof lips.” - Suzanne Collins

37. “Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippling circles. The circles were vultures wheeling around the sun. The vultures disappeared, to be replaced by checkers squares ready to be played on. On the board, the pieces moved around incredibly rapidly, winning dozens of games every minute. They were scarcely lined up before they started rushing at each other again, banging into each other, forming fighting combinations, wiping the other side out in the wink of an eye. Then the squares scattered, giving way to the grille of a crossword puzzle, and here, too, words flashed, drove each other away, clustered, were erased. They were all very long words, like Catalepsy, Thunderbird, Superrequeteriquísímo and Anticonstitutionally. The grille faded away, and suddenly the whole sky was covered with linked words, long sentences full of semicolons and inverted commas. For the space of a few seconds, there was this gigantic sheet of paper on which were written sentences that moved forward jerkily, changing their meaning, modifying their construction, altering completely as they advanced. It was beautiful, so beautiful that nothing like that had ever been read anywhere, and yet it was impossible to decipher the writing. It was all about death, or pity, or the incredible secrets that are hidden somewhere, at one of the farthest points of time. It was about water, too, about vast lakes floating just above the mountains, lakes shimmering under the cold wind. For a split second, Y. M. H., by screwing up his eyes, managed to read the writing, but it vanished with lightning speed and he could not be sure. It seemed to go like this: There's no reason to be afraid. No, there's no reason to be afraid. There's no reason to be afraid. There's no reason to be afraid. No. No, there's no reason to be afraid. No, there's no reason to be afraid.” - j.m.g. le clezio

38. “Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.” - Sheri S. Tepper

39. “You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all." - Matthew Farrell” - Judith McNaught

40. “Only.. I want to do die as myself” - Suzanne Collins

41. “Then what's a synonym for woman?""Entrails.""You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?""Milk.” - Osamu Dazai

42. “You know Morse Code?” Avian asked as we walked up.“My grandpa thought it was a fun game when I was little,” West said as he rubbed his eyes again. ”That’s a scientist’s version of fun for you.” - Keary Taylor

43. “It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.” - Jane McGonigal

44. “Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.” - Marta Acosta

45. “Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.” - Seanan McGuire

46. “People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life.” - Shannon L. Alder

47. “it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.” - Evan Meekins

48. “Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.” - Shannon L. Alder

49. “Denial and affirmation are games which people play.There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.” - Idries Shah

50. “There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.” - Shannon L. Alder

51. “Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.And the magical things you can do with that ballwill make you the winning-est winner of all.Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be,with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.Except when they don'tBecause, sometimes they won't.I'm afraid that some timesyou'll play lonely games too.Games you can't win'cause you'll play against you.” - Dr. Seuss

52. “Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?” - Stephen King

53. “nice knowing ya...” - Fake Cinna

54. “Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.” - Shannon L. Alder

55. “When we quit playing Hokey Pokey with God and keep our whole self in, His blessings pursue us!” - Evinda Lepins

56. “That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken” - Nenia Campbell

57. “There are no winners in real games.” - Dejan Stojanovic

58. “The game itself is bigger than the winning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

59. “For a game, you don’t need a teacher.” - Dejan Stojanovic

60. “Every step in life is merely part of a game. Every piece is necessary, but if you do not know how to control the game, then you become one of the pieces that are meant to be sacrificed.” - Lionel Suggs

61. “Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.” - Shannon L. Alder

62. “Let the games begin!” - Susan Collins

63. “I really like Google+ it's much better than face book. The only game you can play on it is life. Which is a game that can only be played and never won.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

64. “One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.It's like making a joke which is so subtle that it goes unnoticed and you are reduced to explaining it.Can we draw some other lesson from this?There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. One of the strategies can be to sacrifice it at just the right moment and be the first to say: 'I'm not playing any more', since you then collect all the stakes.” - Jean Baudrillard

65. “If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.” - Rand Miller

66. “My personal favorite version of the game, Speed Scrabble, is played with tiles only. Each player selects seven tiles. At the call to start, each player turns over his or her tiles. Using these letters, the player creates an individual grid of six letters, with two or possibly three intersecting words, selecting one letter to pass along. The first player to finish calls out the word switch, passes the rejected tiles to the player at the right, and turns over two new tiles from the general pile. Each player then incorporates the new tiles into his or her grid, always rejecting one to pass along at the word switch. Obvious rejects are Q and Z, which usually get passed around. The game is played until the tiles are depleted and one person calls out the word finished. If no one has any questions about the winner's grid, the points on the tiles are added up. Losers deduct the number of points of the unused letters. Each round takes about fifteen or twenty minutes max...” - Michelle Arnot

67. “Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” - Shannon L. Alder

68. “Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.” - Shannon L. Alder

69. “And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.” - Ian Fleming

70. “A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.” - Suzanne Palmieri

71. “I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.” - Kiersten White

72. “From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.” - Yasunari Kawabata

73. “It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.” - Robert Heinlein in Double Star