Gods Quotes

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Whom the gods love dies young.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

We are making gods out of global celebrities.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

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

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.