Gods Quotes

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of i...

The insurance companies involved had all claimed that this was, by any reasonable standards, an act ...

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are foreve...

Perhaps he still hopes. If there’s any justice in the Gods’ injustice, then may they let us keep our...

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent o...

It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss...

The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.

The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.

Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to he...

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.

What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we...

Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.

Atal felt a spectral change in the air, as if the laws of earth were bowing to greater laws.

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpa...

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta...

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods...

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the ...

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not ...

Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the do...

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.

People who believe in buried gods,’ said Louis.‘Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?’‘I’m...

Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened...

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing abou...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. Sh...

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

Joe has sense enough to knowHe is a god.So many gods don't know.

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.