Top 52 Against The Gods Quotes
#1. For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus
#2. Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Andre Gide
#3. When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
Sophocles
#4. [Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day
to you, thief of fire, I speak.
Aeschylus
#5. Can you please tell me who you people are?"
"Criminals. Offenders. Monsters. We've all been imprisoned in Tartarus for discretions committed against the gods of Olympus."
~ Hope/Daedalus, The River Styx
David Revilla
#6. The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one.
C.S. Lewis
#7. He had the sense that the gods was just another name for time, but he felt that it would be as stupid to say such a thing as it would be to suggest that against the gods we can never prevail.
Richard Flanagan
#8. The atheist joined his hands. It wasn't against the Gods. He smiled, with his hands folded, saw his daughter's in-laws approaching near.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#9. The Greeks say it's a sin against the gods to love something beyond all reason. And do you remember that they say when someone is loved so, the gods become jealous, and strike the object down in the very fullness of its flower?
Colleen McCullough
#10. Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
Homer
#11. But swan, float lightly because you are a swan, because by the exquisite curve of your neck the gods gave you some special favor, and even though you fracture it running against some man-made bridge, it healed and you sailed onward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald to his wife Zelda.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#12. Aegistheus, the kings have another secret ... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#13. Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#14. Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
Tacitus
#15. Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Isaac Asimov
#16. Tell them this: somehow our two worlds stand linked again by some dark power of Tsurani origin. It moves against the Kingdom. It is power beyond human understanding, perhaps power to challenge the gods themselves.
Raymond E. Feist
#17. The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.
Christopher Hitchens
#18. Truly, when the gods set their faces against you, you are fucked.
Robert Low
#19. She leaned forward and put her warm, smooth lips against his. They lingered there and Ash felt a shiver run right through his body. In a good way. A very good way. He could get used to this.
"May the gods protect you, Ashoka Mistry," she whispered.
Sarwat Chadda
#20. Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#21. She sagged against the wall, finding it hard to breathe. It wasn't from fear. Gods, she hadn't been that turned on in years. If that was her punishment, she was going to be lippy a little more often
Lia Davis
#22. When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.
John Hagee
#23. Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?
Steven Erikson
#24. Not that he had anything against belief. People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people. The
Terry Pratchett
#25. A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
Jonathan Edwards
#26. It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
Homer
#27. Night is falling. The gods have left us for those who please them better. Our time in the world is passed, and we are as wasted as the wind against the mountains. Shadows are falling, the gods have left us.
Jim Grimsley
#28. We see that humanism has become for many a polite name for a vocal, aggressive, influential crusade against religion in the name of social and moral advance. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods" [Genesis 3:5 KJV].
Billy Graham
#29. He swings the knocker against the door. The entire building booms like a drum. It continues booming after he lets go, banging like a clock striking the hour, rattling like a great tin drum.
Christopher Bram
#31. Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.
Plato
#32. Stupid girl, you should have let me die, he thought. Specks of light could be seen against the night sky, distant windows and flickering streetlamps. How many times had he wished for death, for a killing blow? But it seemed the gods weren't done with him yet.
T.L. Shreffler
#34. I can't get enough of you," he said against her neck. "When I walk away from you I feel like I've cut myself off from breathing.
Thea Harrison
#35. In reality, the only necessary argument against believing in God is simply that there is no evidence that any gods exist. An
Armin Navabi
#36. The LORD will be awesome against them; s for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and t to him shall bow down, each in its place, all u the lands of the nations.
Anonymous
#37. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle.
#38. My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a stubborn character.
Thomm Quackenbush
#39. [Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.
Rose Macaulay
#41. They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
Sophocles
#42. Lifting his head, he whispered against her wet, throbbing lips, "Too much?"
Wasn't that sweet,
Consider even.
But oh, hell no.
She gasped, "Not enough.
Thea Harrison
#43. Not even the gods fight against necessity.
Simonides
#44. Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
Herman Melville
#45. A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds
And see the world in endless sleep
The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap
A single choice shall end his days
Olympus to preserve or raze.
Rick Riordan
#46. The gods created this place for us," I whispered, smiling dreamily. Calder paused, brushing his lips once more across my throat before responding. "Yes." I felt him smile against my skin. "Why do you think they did that?" "So we'd have a place to fall in love.
Mia Sheridan
#47. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
George R R Martin
#48. He wasn't sure himself why he was pulling his punches in this way, but somehow it seemed important not to let Contact know everything, to keep something back. It was a small victory against them a little-game, a gesture on a lesser board; a blow against the elements and the gods.
Iain M. Banks
#49. Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' I'm no god and I'll contend no longer.
Isaac Asimov
#50. It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
Vikram Seth
#51. And our sailors of space have a legend of the furthest star of all, where the gods lay their plans against us, or plot the catastrophes of the end of time: the pachacuti. We call this undiscovered star Karu, which means 'far'.'
'As we speak of Ultima,' Quintus mused.
Stephen Baxter
#52. Life just is and the gods have their plans for us. We're powerless against them. In the end, we are what our pasts have made us and we live the lives the gods have chosen for us.
-Syn
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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