Gods Quotes

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...

The death of one god is the death of all.

If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him mov...

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would h...

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for ...

Men create the gods in their own image.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they wo...

But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining o...

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to s...

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours...

From too much love of livingFrom hope and fear set free,We thank with brief thanksgivingWhatever god...

You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can thi...

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a...

Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political par...

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravi...

I remember sitting in this cabin in Alaska one evening reading over the notes of all these encounter...

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then n...

When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem...

Gods fight, Ragnar went on earnestly, and some win, some lose. The Christian god is losing. Otherwis...