Among Gods Quotes

#1. I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

Homer

#2. There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

Xenophanes

#3. Huh, Kelsier thought. He holds the powers of creation in twain, a god among gods. And he's still a terrible liar.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

Daniel Quinn

#6. Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

Aeschylus

#7. The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

Rachel Hartman

#8. My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

Kate Thompson

#9. Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

George Ellwanger

#10. That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That'll teach me to go hide in a temple.

Megan Whalen Turner

#11. Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.

Lactantius

#12. Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

Pythagoras

#13. Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

Hesiod

#14. Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

John Milton

#15. What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.

Janet Morris

#16. We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.

N.K. Jemisin

#17. God is solitary in His excellency. "Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" (Exo 15:11).

Arthur W. Pink

#18. As Jesus put it, "Even the least among you can do all that I have done and even greater things," and, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?" (John 10:34).

Wayne W. Dyer

#19. Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

Janet Morris

#20. Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!

Anton Szandor LaVey

#21. Perhaps such things pass for virtue among the gods. But how is there glory in taking life? We die so easily. Would you make him another Pyrrhus? Let the stories of him be something more.

Madeline Miller

#22. Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

Homer

#23. When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Leon Battista Alberti

#24. Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

Kate Atkinson

#25. When the gods come among men, they are not known.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

Ruby Dee

#28. He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

Kate Chopin

#29. He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven

Thiruvalluvar

#30. Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

David Eagleman

#31. Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

J. Robert King

#32. About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look at. Many things prevent my knowing. Among others, the fact that they are never seen.

Protagoras

#33. That is the power you must one day command. Let them think every breath of theirs is a gift, not from the gods, but from you. Do this, and you will become a god among them.

David Dalglish

#34. Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.

Benjamin Jowett

#35. But any creature has life. Man is special and unique among the beasts because we have the ability to reason. I think that is our Divine gift. I feel the Gods are likely angered by any man who refuses to claim the Divine birthright of a rational mind.

W.A. Hoffman

#36. Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.

Vitruvius

#37. The Great among these spirits the Elves name the Valar, the Powers of Arda, and Men have often called them gods.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#38. The gods used to walk among us.
True, said death.
Why did you leave?
Ah, sweet child, it was your people who left us.

Marie Rutkoski

#39. Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

Aeschylus

#40. Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men,
conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

Hesiod

#41. The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#42. The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.

Henry David Thoreau

#43. The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony needs
low and high,
as progeny needs
man and woman.

Heraclitus

#44. God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

Christopher Hitchens

#45. Faith in one's own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man,

Arthur C. Clarke

#46. Okay, that's enough. Everyone. Let's just calm down. We don't want to look bad in front of the psychopaths.

Tom Taylor

#47. To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

Confucius

#48. Very
dangerous ... much like kisses from those who walk among the gods. Intoxicating, sweet, and deadly ... you need to know how to handle it right. Just a little and you'l be fine.
Too much ... it takes away what makes you who you are.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#49. God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.

Sathya Sai Baba