Quotes About Gods

Basically, you deny one less God than I do. You don't believe in 2,999 gods. And I don't believe in just one more.

He appreciates the night and its wandering points of light, its lawns turned the color of blackberry jelly, its gravel smoothed to tweed, its owls tearing at the throats of mice. He is bountiful with love. If America has gods, this is where they dwell—under rocks, in the branches of trees, in ivy, skunkweed, the hearts of fish, the flight of geese.

they created huge empires of faithful slaves "by the will of the supreme gods"…

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.

Gods, the pamphlets asserted, were not supernatural beings, but tenuously living things, like ethereal plants, that evolved in concert with the human species. We were simply their medium—our brains and flesh the soil in which they sprouted and grew.

The gods of power frown on the frivolous; they give ultimate satisfaction only to those who study and reflect, and punish those who skim the surfaces looking for a good time.

patience is the supreme virtue of the gods, who have nothing but time.

El poder tiene más relación con lo divino que con el mundo natural. Y la paciencia es la virtud suprema de los dioses, que disponen de todo el tiempo del mundo.

The Spartan statesman Lycurgus, seven hundred years ago, is said to have observed: When falls on man the anger of the gods, First from his mind they banish understanding. Such was to be the fate of Caesar. I am sure Cicero was correct: he had gone mad. His success had made him vain, and his vanity had devoured his reason.

I did not have long to enjoy my freedom in tranquillity. My modest plans, like everyone else's, were about to be mocked by the immensity of events. As Plautus has it: Whatever the mind may hope for The future is in the hands of the gods.

Surely the gods, given their immortal powers, should be able to find more articulate means of communication than snowflakes. Why not send us a letter?

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Anne always liked to get up early and catch that mystical half-hour before sunrise when the world belongs to the fairies and the old gods.

I reckon the gods laugh many a time to hear us, but what matters so long as we remember that we're only men and don't take to fancying that we're gods ourselves, really, knowing good and evil.

The conversation of the gods! - I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of the planets, and if I carried messages between them and I couldn't always understand, that was in order too: they were something in a foreign language - star-talk.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. She'd

Do the gods sleep well at night? I think maybe they do.

Do you have a problem with us hunting down and killing a god from your pantheon? If it is a god, then you cannot kill it, and if you can kill it, then it is not a god. I do not mourn the death of false gods.

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

Never to imagine that any of these generalizations we make about gods or men is valid, but to cherish them because they carry in them the fallibility of our own minds.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.