Gods Quotes

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

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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

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.

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

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

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.