Jerry Garcia Quotes

You never know why something works or doesn't.

I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.

Life is so unpredictable.

Football works in mysterious ways.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random. So truthfully, again, do I wish it weren't me? Absolutely. I still can't make that logistic jump to thinking there's a reason why it shouldn't be me.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Does fate ever play by the rules?

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Everybody believes in chance.

Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.