Quotes About Gods

My sisters, you, his daughters! Now that you've heard our father's iron curses, I implore you in the name of the gods, if father's curses all come true at last, and if some way back to Thebes is found for you, don't neglect me, please, give me burial, the honored rites of death.

But if any man comes striding, high and mighty in all he says and does, no fear of justice, no reverence for the temples of the gods— let a rough doom tear him down, repay his pride, breakneck, ruinous pride!

They are dying, the old oracles sent to Laius, now our masters strike them off the rolls. Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now— the gods, the gods go down.

Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now— the gods, the gods go down.

For you have confused the upper and lower worlds. You have thrust the child of this world into living night, You have kept from the gods below the child that is theirs. The one on a grave before her death, the other, Dead, denied the grave. This is your crime.

cast me away, my friends— this great murderous ruin, this man cursed to heaven, the man the deathless gods hate most of all!

All men must cast away the great blasphemer, the curse now brought to light by the gods, the son of Laius—I, my father's son!

ANTIGONE: Nevertheless, there are honors due all the dead. CREON: But not the same for the wicked as for the just. ANTIGONE: Ah Creon, Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked? CREON: An enemy is an enemy, even dead. ANTIGONE: It is may nature to join in love, not hate.

Ni pensaba yo que tus proclamas tuvieran tanta fuerza que permitieran a un mortal transgredir las leyes no escritas e inmutables de los dioses.

Jumalat eivät voi tehdä mitä eivät tahdo.

Destaca-se a prudência sobremodo como a primeira condição para a felicidade. Não se deve ofender os deuses em nada. A desmedida empáfia nas palavras reverte em desmedidos golpes contra os soberbos que, já na velhice, aprendem afinal prudência.

godforsaken, cursed by the gods! I pity you but I can't bear to look.

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

The second half of the twentieth century in Japan saw the birth of scores of new religions – a phenomenon to which the Japanese have applied the appealing label kamigami no rasshu-awa, "the rush hour of the gods.

Height to height and light to light, like butterflies and minor gods or aerial photographers we make this plot, pretend to view a former fate where Hardy's rustics still forgive what seems to them but nature's lot.

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

The people first beheld the destruction of the works of their own hands. Their splendid buildings, and the beautiful gardens and groves where they had placed their idols, were destroyed by lightning from heaven, and the ruins were scattered far and wide. The altars on which human sacrifices had been offered were torn down, and the worshipers were made to tremble at the power of the living God, and to know that it was their corruption and idolatry which had called down their destruction.

Lest Love should grow too earthly to aspire, The wise gods blinded him with vague desire; They nourished him on dreams and ecstasies, Tempered his arrows in the sacred fire.

Agression is a trait common to men and new gods.

Wisdom is the last word of a dying civilization, the halo of historical sunsets, fatigue turned into a worldview, the final tolerance before the rise of fresher gods—and barbarism.

There is no such thing as a perfect vacuum in history. That unheard-of absence to which we are reduced, and which I have the pleasure and the misfortune to reveal to you, you would be mistaken to imagine merely a blank, uninscribed; for in it I discern—presentiment or hallucination?—a kind of expectation of other gods. Which ones? No one can say. All I know, and it is what everyone knows, is that a situation like ours cannot be endured indefinitely.

Nescience is the basis of everything, it creates everything by an action repeated every moment, it produces this and any world, since it continually takes for real what in fact is not. Nescience is the tremendous mistake that serves as the basis of all our truths, it is older and more powerful than all the gods combined.

I fail to witness the gods' hilarity at leaving behind the human episode.