Quotes About Norse Gods

#1. Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

Elizabeth Scott

#2. There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods.

Rick Riordan

#3. Those movies... ridiculously inaccurate. The real gods of Asgard - Thor, Loki, Odin, and the rest - are much more powerful, much more terrifying than anything Hollywood could concoct.

Rick Riordan

#4. I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

Michael Boatman

#5. Thousands of candles can be lit by just one candle, and the life of that candle will not be shorter because of it. Happiness is never diminished by being shared.

Francesc Miralles

#6. He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble.

Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Roads are not practical in Africa.

Mo Ibrahim

#8. I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Michael Collins

#9. If you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you.

Neil Gaiman

#10. The Norse myths are the myths of a chilly place, with long, long winter nights and endless summer days, myths of a people who did not entirely trust or even like their gods, although they respected and feared them.

Neil Gaiman

#11. And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.

Joanne Harris

#12. We're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just ... well, better at it than most.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

Bruce Lee

#14. 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

#15. The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Baruch Spinoza

#16. Master of magic, god of war, Odin wanders alone.

F.T. McKinstry

#17. Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.

Dick Stuart