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Quotes About Gods

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
~ Homer
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
~ Marcus Aurelius
All gods are better than their reputation.
~ Mark Twain
The gods have become our diseases.
~ C.G. Jung
The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.
~ Tom Spanbauer
The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.
~ Michael Cadnum
If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.
~ Stephen Fry
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
~ George Santayana
Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
~ John Milton
The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
~ Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
~ Herodotus
If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
~ Janet Morris
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
~ Lucretius
The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.
~ Aeschylus
The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
~ Steven Erikson
It's a god-eat-god world.
~ Terry Pratchett
Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
~ William Shakespeare
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
~ Mason Cooley
We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.
~ Matthew Arnold