Top 100 Quotes About Gods
#1. Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
Plautus
#2. The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
Wm. Paul Young
#3. It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
Or draw a line daring them to cross.
Anne Spencer
#4. The Celestial (Heavenly Gods) become pleased with the one who isn't hungry for fame and recognition. The whole world can be pleased with us, but because of our hunger they are not pleased with us.
Dada Bhagwan
#5. Stupid rock gods!" Leo yelled from the helm. "That's the third time I've had to replace that mast! You think they grow on trees?"
Nico frowned. "Masts are from trees."
"That's not the point!
Rick Riordan
#7. Go on," he offered magnanimously. "Feel free to piss on yourselves and
cower helplessly."
Gods, sometimes his generosity overwhelmed him.
G.A. Aiken
#8. Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
Euripides
#9. John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains - and he withdrew his fire - until the day when men withdraw their vultures.
Ayn Rand
#10. Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?
James Clavell
#11. Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken Olde English.
Thomm Quackenbush
#12. Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
Thomas Hardy
#13. He said I had been touched by a god, and that I am a holy man. I said, "If I have been touched by a god, it was only to curse me." He nodded. "All who are touched by gods are holy.
Gene Wolfe
#14. If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool.
Mary Stewart
#15. [On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.
Helen Van Slyke
#16. What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.
Francois Jacob
#17. But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land, over the fields of the slain, paced to the rhythm of the blood's red bugles. To be alone and evil! To be a god at bay. What was more absolute?
Mervyn Peake
#18. Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.
Janet Morris
#19. Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.
Virgil
#20. If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
Lao-Tzu
#21. Orr's gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus
#23. The gods use their chosen hard, but reveal little to them.
Jacqueline Carey
#24. Stars are tragic. Most of the stars are nothing but reminders of love gone horribly wrong, or men challenging the gods.
Kaitlin Bevis
#25. It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
Martial
#27. 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
#28. You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can ... how do you moderns say it ... think outside the cup.
Rick Riordan
#29. If the gods chose Sextus as King of Rome, the worst possible evil will befall it
Aziz Hamza
#30. The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!
John Dryden
#32. The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
Bob Brown
#33. I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.
Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now.
Neil Gaiman
#34. The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Fear first made gods in the world.
Statius
#36. Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
Gautama Buddha
#37. Those who deck themselves out in stolen gods are not viable.
Halldor Laxness
#39. Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods.
Naomi Wolf
#40. in a postmodern world, even gods and sacred objects must travel or lose their vitality; any deity that remained stuck in its place and original purpose would soon become moribund.
Okey Ndibe
#41. We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.
M.F. Moonzajer
#42. What are men? Mortal gods.
What are gods? Immortal men.
Heraclitus
#43. There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.
John Steinbeck
#44. In the blood of scales and days of kings,
Will come a boy to save us all.
Let us pray to the gods above, our voices large and small.
For all we fear in the shadows, will be destroyed with light.
Talonsphere will rise from the ground, and bring fire to the night.
Peter Koevari
#45. Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.
Gangaji
#46. So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.
Hal Duncan
#47. We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they'll love us back even half way.
Jennifer Elisabeth
#48. Prometheus had stolen fire from the gods and suffered the consequences. I had returned the gift of the gods, and the price had been my dreams.
Jim C. Hines
#49. The wrong thing being?" asks Halwaz.
"Closing up their source, of course," you say, in a tone which implies, "Did you think I was merely talking about their sacrificing small fuzzy animals in an attempt to bring back ancient evil gods?
Mike Reeves-McMillan
#50. But even so, we're not devils, let alone gods. We're human. We're human!
Hiromu Arakawa
#51. Ask yourself, if all men must grub in the dirt for food, how shall any man lift his eyes to contemplate the stars? If each of us must break his back to build a hovel, who shall raise the temples to glorify the gods?
George R R Martin
#52. We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods.
Maurice Samuel
#53. He rolled his eyes and then frowned at both me and Ian (Somerhalder). "That guy takes a shit, too, you know."
I shook my head to disagree. "No, he doesn't. He's still in god status and we all know that gods don't poop.
Tina Reber
#54. When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
#55. Astrology reveals the will of the gods.
Juvenal
#56. David christened it: "This is the house of Yahzeh ha-Elohim [1 ahveh of the Gods], and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel" (xxii, 1)
Joseph Wheless
#57. She glanced at him. "What gods do you respect?" "None." "And why not?" "I help myself," he said.
Octavia E. Butler
#58. Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.
Harlan Ellison
#59. [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
#60. Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.
Leo Tolstoy
#61. You're saying the gods don't have free will."
"The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals.
Lev Grossman
#62. You are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly.
Wallace D. Wattles
#63. The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
Oscar Wilde
#64. Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
Ram Dass
#65. Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
Billy Corgan
#66. Oh gods, Jane, the answer to all those questions is you. You turn me on; you're what I want; you make me growl.
Nicole Peeler
#67. Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.
Franz Grillparzer
#68. Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
Paul Gauguin
#69. The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. In fact, the most scientific and valid evidence points to an origin for Jesus Christ as mythical and fabulous as that of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman gods of the same general era and area.
D.M. Murdock
#72. Oh gods, are you listening? A storm out at sea is one of your greatest creations. You should hear it praised. The sky is dark, almost as night, and the swells ... they were taller than mountains.
Amy Lane
#73. There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
Robert Anton Wilson
#75. That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
Michel De Montaigne
#76. There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
Joshilyn Jackson
#77. 'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.
Victor LaValle
#78. Things perish. Gods have passed.
But song sublimely cast
Shall citadels outlast.
Theophile Gautier
#79. As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
Don Marquis
#80. Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
"I want to be a soldier. A hero."
"You'll grow out of it.
Steven Erikson
#81. Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.
Jacques Maritain
#82. Yet no matter what happened tomorrow, or next week, or next year, she was grateful. Grateful to the gods, to fate, to herself for being brave enough to kiss him that night. Grateful for this little bit of time she'd been given with him.
Sarah J. Maas
#84. I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.
Rick Riordan
#85. Nico knelt and picked it up. He regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. "If the others found out-" "If the others found out," Jason said, "you'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble.
Rick Riordan
#86. False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
Alexander Herzen
#87. A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#88. Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don't think they can become men.
Dennis Lehane
#90. Confucius, who had said it was better not to know about ghosts and gods, but rather to focus on the world we lived in.
Yangsze Choo
#91. Demons have existed on the Discworld for at least as long as the gods, who in many ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as that between terrorists and freedom fighters.
Terry Pratchett
#92. The Gods made me special because They knew I could handle the ignorance.
D. Alexandria
#93. While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us," she said, "at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality.
Roger Zelazny
#94. Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Aeschylus
#95. The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#96. Proving once again that dumbshits with flashlights can look like gods to geniuses, if the geniuses are from the technological past,
Rob Reid
#97. Water was a state of mind. If you think it your friend when you swim in the river or wash away the dirt, why call it your enemy when it comes from the heavens? From the cup of the gods themselves.
Kate Furnivall
#98. She made you smile."
"Aye. Rhiannon always makes me smile."
Shalin dropped her head against her son's chest. "Dark gods, I've lost you forever."
Bercelak rolled his eyes. "I think, Mother, that's a tad extreme.
G.A. Aiken
#99. Thou hast come into being by the toil; the work of the gods thou art the way of holy order. With the Vasus, the gods, as deity, with the Gayatri metre I yoke thee, with the spring season as oblation I consecrate thee. - Yajur Veda, Taittiriya Samhita, Khand VII 1.18
Aparna Sinha
#100. 23:24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
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