Gods Quotes

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

When men make gods, there is no God!

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.