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Quotes About Gods

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
The wild gods live with the wild plants. Once, all of our gods were plants and animals. The allies are the ancient gods, their wisdom is the ancient substrate of our volition; they are the maternal transmitters of our vision and dreams. Anthropomorphic gods were the children of the plant gods. That is why destroying wild habitat is parricide, because the gods cannot live without their habitat, and it was the gods that made us, and gave us our culture.
~ Unknown
The wild gods live with the wild plants. Once, all of our gods were plants and animals. The allies are the ancient gods, their wisdom is the ancient substrate of our volition; they are the maternal transmitters of our vision ans dreams. Anthropomorphic gods were the children of the plant gods. That is why destroying wild habitat is parricide, because the gods cannot live without their habitat, and it was the gods that made us, and gave us our culture.
~ Unknown
La diferencia entre dioses y demonios depende en gran medida de la posición en la que se encuentre uno en ese momento - Primarca Lorgar
~ Dan Abnett
Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.
~ Gad Saad
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
~ Norman Mailer
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.
~ Louis Aragon
Then she said a little prayer of thanks to the gods that give grace. The grace to cry and the grace to watch.
~ Louise Penny
When night comes, the gods again taunt us with a radiant sunset. "Nothing should be this beautiful," I quietly say to Chou. "The gods are playing tricks on us. How could they be so cruel and still make the sky so lovely?". My words tug at my heart. It is unfair of the gods to show us beauty when I am in so much pain and anguish. "I want to destroy all the beautiful things.
~ Loung Ung
The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.
~ Lovecraft H P
Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.
~ Unknown
May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.
~ Unknown
Jealous, the old gods Shut it in shadow, Wisely they ward it, Egg of the serpent, Bane to them all.
~ Unknown
The Gods are not to be feared; death cannot be felt; the good can be won; what we dread can be conquered.
~ Unknown
Zeus, ruler of the gods.
~ Unknown
theogony" and "cosmogony." What do they mean? In truth, these archaic Greek terms are quite simple, as well as interchangeable. The birth (-gony) of the world (cosmos) and the birth (-gony) of the gods (theo) are one and the same: the cosmogony, the birth of the cosmos, is also and reciprocally a theogony, a story about the origins of divinity.
~ Unknown
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
~ Lucan
If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.
~ Lucan
Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni
~ Lucan
So when the world's compounded union breaks, Time ends and to old Chaos all things turn;...Dissolve the engines of the broken world. All great things crush themselves, such end the gods...
~ Unknown
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Samo je grob ?ovekov kolevka bogova.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide.
~ John Banville