Gods Quotes

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

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

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.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for 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.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

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.

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