Top 56 Gods And Mortals 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. We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.
Robin LaFevers
#3. With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
Pindar
#4. Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.
Nenia Campbell
#5. Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Aeschylus
#7. Nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
Madeline Miller
#8. 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
#9. Passions have made mortals of us men. If men were not slaves of passion, they would have been Gods, each one.
Khushwant Singh
#10. God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Xenophanes
#11. Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
Homer
#12. My king, I do not know all things but I do know that we mortals cannot orchestrate for the gods what they have agreed to accomplish.
Ray Anyasi
#13. The gods whispered to you once, Finnikin. And you listened. But they are proud and refuse to speak to those who do not believe that there is something out there mightier than the minds and intellect of mortals.
Melina Marchetta
#14. Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
Trudi Canavan
#15. Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
Homer
#16. Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.
Megan Whalen Turner
#17. The wheel of Rome spins constantly. Gods rise and fall, mortals live and die, and round and round we go. We all play a part in that wheel ... And I make sure the wheel never stops spinning. You see, if the wheel stops, balance is lost.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#18. The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
L.M. Montgomery
#19. Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
#20. You're saying the gods don't have free will."
"The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals.
Lev Grossman
#21. Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.
Franz Grillparzer
#22. Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
Plautus
#23. Fie these gods! What beings are these who would play so cruelly with the sensibilities of rational, conscientious mortals?
R.A. Salvatore
#24. The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
Hannah Arendt
#25. Then there was Buddha meddling in, telling all of the Hindu, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic gods and demons that they were nothing more than unenlightened fear induced figments of nirvana-starved mortals.
Andrew James Pritchard
#26. I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god ... What fools these mortals be.
Benjamin R. Smith
#27. Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it.
Bette Bao Lord
#28. They have feared the gods, as they should, for gods are a bunch of sodden bastards. For a man who does not fear them, does not fear the terrible consequences. If mortals fail, gods fall.
Alaric Longward
#29. The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes.
Josephine Angelini
#30. What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
Lord Byron
#31. I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.
Karen Traviss
#32. They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.
Homer
#33. The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.
Alexander McCall Smith
#34. Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
Xenophanes
#35. Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.
Jonathan Kieran
#36. Yes, Ryn, a woman. A soldier who has taken the heads of gods, escaped from countless prisons and dungeons, and decimated an army of mortals by herself. Do not underestimate her simply because she wears a bra.
Bethany K. Lovell
#37. Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.
Edward Young
#38. On nights such as these the gods, as has already been pointed out, play games other than chess with the fates of mortals and the thrones of kings. It is important to remember that they always cheat, right up to the end ...
Terry Pratchett
#39. Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one - so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim - the greater man.
Homer
#40. While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of man's nature - those were mysteries to the gods, for all their manipulations.
Hayden Thorne
#41. Ungit tells me things. I hear of terrible doings in this land, mortals aping the gods and stealing the worship due
C.S. Lewis
#42. Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark, demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend, and yet when they had that attention and those answers, they complained about them.
Philippa Ballantine
#43. If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.
Bette Lord
#44. The planet is littered with irresponsible gods.
T.F. Hodge
#45. Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#46. The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
Melina Marchetta
#47. The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.
Jostein Gaarder
#48. Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given ...
Homer
#49. 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
#50. Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
Charles Kingsley
#51. The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.
Barry B. Powell
#52. Is that all we mortals are? The victims of tortured irony to amuse an insane murder of gods?
A murder of crows, a murder of gods-I like that, lass.
Steven Erikson
#53. In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
Xenophanes
#54. The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.
Homer
#55. So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for what we gods feel. Gods have no words for such things. But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always love left, underneath. Horrible, isn't it?
N.K. Jemisin
#56. There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
Xenophanes
