Quotes About Randomness Of Life

#1. This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is risky, that it is a bad thing - and that eliminating randomness is done by eliminating randomness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Before my unfeeling eyes, the repressed bitterness of my whole life peels off the suit of natural joy it wears in the prolonged randomness of every day. I realize that I'm always sad, however happy or content I may often feel. And the part of me that realizes this stands a little behind me ...

Fernando Pessoa

#3. Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

Orhan Pamuk

#4. We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there is a randomness to life that is beyond analysis...

William Eisner

#5. It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life - with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of chance wanted to have the last word.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. There's randomness and there's the demand and supply ratio. And both of these combine to stop the average man from making it big. More it happens, more is our guy forced to believe in luck. Decades, my friend, you know what that does to a man.

Daya Kudari

#7. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Sidney Poitier

#8. The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

Ashly Lorenzana

#9. Life had taught him to be profoundly suspicious of coincidence, and it had similarly taught him to view any seemingly random conjunction of events or persons as coincidence and thus be suspicious of that, as well.

Donna Leon

#10. To my mind, randomness is not just inevitable; it is part of the beauty of life. Acknowledging it and appreciating it helps us respond constructively when we are surprised.

Ed Catmull

#11. Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~

Eileen Miller

#12. Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.

Nigel Tomm

#13. There is no randomness about your life. Here and Now comprise the coordinates of your daily life.

Sarah Young

#14. So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

Sidney Poitier

#15. The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

Paul Auster

#16. The problem with life - with a lot of things - was randomness was responsible for so many things.

Andrea Speed

#17. Life is nothing like a choose your own adventure. Except for when it is, in its randomness: a cancer sell splitting and spreading ruthlessly within the bloodstream; a storm raising on a deadly lake. Except for when it is, in the way the ending changes - in memory in meaning father than substance.

Carrie Snyder

#18. Every life is a unique random business

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#19. Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He dreamed of being at the mercy of the wind, carried aloft and blown here and there, a life of true randomness instead of always being part of someone else's purpose.

Orson Scott Card

#20. It might not have been Mike,' she said, 'but somebody left something somewhere.'

I couldn't really argue with that. It was as succinct a summing up of the seeming randomness of events in life as I had ever heard.

Bob Tarte

#21. Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation
it is part of the equation.

Jeanette Winterson

#22. I believe that things just happen in life, and pretty much after the fact, we make up a story to make it all seem rational. We all like simple stories that suggest a causal chain to life's events. Yet randomness is ever present.

Michael S. Gazzaniga

#23. The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.

Toba Beta

#24. Lucretius poetic, or "everything is infinite randomness, life is awesome, let's get drunk and fuck." I don't need a reason to live, I just need access to booze and sex, and that's motivating enough. However,

Peter Welch

#25. We're just lines and angles.

Megan Duke

#26. Life is a chain of happenings that are either purely random or predestined.

Steven Redhead

#27. Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn't the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!

Art Spiegelman

#28. A random act of violence," his mother called it. "A totally senseless thing." Unnecessary qualifiers, he sometimes wants to tell her, as the universe is random and senseless place.

Thomas Pierce

#29. [The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.

Anita Diamant

#30. Perhaps death represents the severing of the living organism's connection with the orderly quantum realm, leaving it powerless to resist the randomizing forces of thermodynamics.

Jim Al-Khalili

#31. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

Ben Casnocha