Quotes About Gods

We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

Though reading is no substitute for hearing McKenna expound his thesis (you can find him on YouTube), he summarizes it in Food of the Gods (1992): Psilocybes

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

The gods love those of ordered soul.

One thing that I get from a lot of people with American Gods is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

We may know nothing of their beliefs, but we still pay homage to three of their gods—Tiw, Woden, and Thor—in the names of our three middle weekdays, and eternally commemorate Woden's wife, Frig, every Friday.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

One of these Roman senators says to the other: Don't you actually believe in the gods? The second senator replies: "Privately I believe in none of them; publicly I believe in them all.

The ancient world was settled so sparsely that nature was not yet eclipsed by man. Nature hit you in the eye so plainly and grabbed you so fiercely and so tangibly by the scruff of the neck that perhaps it really was still full of gods.

Rome was a flea market of borrowed gods and conquered peoples, a bargain basement on two floors, earth and heaven, a mass of filth convoluted in a triple not as in an intestinal obstruction

Rome was a marketplace of borrowed gods and conquered peoples

All the gods know is destinations.

Hard gods were there, nothing else.

Haven't you ever noticed that people who win say it's because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn't the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.

He was overconfident", she told him. "And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they'd have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works." "You won because you were good" he corrected her. "I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

Lark: You shouldn't yell at her. Frostpine: Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, but our Water dedicates would try the patience of a stone . — Dedicates Lark and Frostpine when the latter found out that the Water Temple had run out of warded boxes

Your place in life you can always change, whether you have the gift or not. But you cannot change what the gods have made you. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be.

Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles)

Cats must always be cats, even when they are gods, or constellations.

The gods cannot reveal all things; otherwise, where is men's right to choose their fates? Where is your right to choose?