Quotes About Gods

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

Whom the gods love dies young.

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

I am old, but the Gods still love me.

My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

...the Gods too love a joke.

I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both.

Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the gods are missing, the time of absence and exile, art is justified, for it is the intimacy of this distress: the effort to make manifest, through the image, the error of the imaginary, and eventually the ungraspable, forgotten truth which hides behind the error.

There is a singular strand running through history, always renewing itself, that of fanatics for the general good and for the written law. Logical to the point of inhumanity, pitiless towards others as towards themselves, these servants of abstract gods and of absolute law accept the role of executioners, because they wish to be the last executioner. They deceive themselves because, once dead, the world no longer obeys them.

The gods can make a man ridiculous through a woman, but they cannot make him ridiculous when they deal him a blow direct. The very greatness of their power makes them, in that respect, impotent.

In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsafe to make a simple and direct statement.

I can't tell you if this is the right path; the future is too mountainous to see to far ahead. ... Only 'the gods' know what awaits us at its end.

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.

He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That'll teach me to go hide in a temple.

Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

We might someday attain a relationship of mutual respect," he said softly. First, I thought, I will see gods walking the earth. He went on. "For now I will have your obedience." His ability to convey a world of threat in so few words was remarkable.