Gods Quotes

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will r...

Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not...

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands.

Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture t...

And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruc...

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yo...

I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...

I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...

When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by ...

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilati...

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and m...

We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest kille...

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think...

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than b...

So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for ...

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. De...

It was said that the gods favored fools because they were entertaining to watch.

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

Well?" said Loki. "What about you, Heimdall? Do you have any suggestions?""I do," said Heimdall. "Bu...

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. B...

Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, an...

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a f...

Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. "But the heart is...

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to k...

I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob...

It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison gu...

I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving.I ...

Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were imparting a great secret. "But the heart is gre...

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap....

Only the Gods are real.

You know,” he said. “I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in ...

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

On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how ...

My father once told methat there are no gods;only the cruel manipulationsof evil peoplewho pretended...

Those whom the gods love grow young.

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the pl...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

But some, a very come to the gods all on their own They find their way—long and far it is, sometimes...

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god...

Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form the...

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities t...

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating t...

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.''Good, good. But ...

Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral cons...

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, b...

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it.""Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love fo...

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and ...

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human,...

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by...

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing...

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as pe...

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is h...

All the gods know is destinations.

I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god

Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and t...

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods they have not forgotten this.

I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of...

No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god.""Therefore It Is A Religious Posi...

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the o...

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a...

The gods were there to do the duties of a megaphone, because who else would people listen to?

Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was al...

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

Around the Godde there forms a Shelle of prayers and Ceremonies and Buildings and Priestes and Autho...

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the go...

The gods," he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunders...

It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmo...

She was the Goddess Who Must Not Be Named; those who sought her never found her, yet she was known t...

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe...

Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with th...

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplis...

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

The world is sacred, of course, it is full of gods, numina, great powers and presences. We give some...

A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine ...

Aeneas' mother is a star?""No; a goddess."I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in s...

At a great distance appeared with the same pomp the sheep of Thebes, the dog of Bubastis, the cat of...

Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,-- her notion being that the Gods, who ne...