Quotes About Gods

Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.

For at every stage of your civilizations there are numbers of you who put aside selfishness and dedicate their lives in service to something they see as being greater than themselves. I say you may prevail, I say not that you will. For in each of your generations there are men who choose to serve the gods of darkness.

They sit for hours in the "cafes" warming their precious behinds, and talk without stopping about "culture" "art" "revolution" and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

invero gli dèi mi avevano fatto dono del privilegio più grande che mente umana possa concepire, la sublime libertà di odiare quelli che ci hanno messo al mondo

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Hinduism — a spiritual world That contains everything, and shimmers in all colors; It offers us Vedanta, the doctrine of the great Shankara: And also gods without number, In whose cult our heart has no interest. Islam wants first and foremost to be Unity, And life-wisdom. It also knows the wine Of the heart, that turns the soul inwards. Islam is revelation's last sanctuary. In whichever language one honors truth: God is reality — the world is appearance.

Certains accidents géographiques, par exemple les hautes montagnes, s'apparentent, en raison de leur symbolisme naturel, aux grands sanctuaires primordiaux, et c'est pour cela que les peuples les plus divers, surtout ceux dont la tradition a une forme « mythique » ou « primordiale », évitent de monter jusqu'aux sommets des montagnes, par crainte de provoquer la « colère des Dieux ».

The prophecies are not literal, Mistress," OreSeur said. "They're metaphors - expressions of hope. Or, at least, that is how I have always seen them. Perhaps your Terris prophecies are the same? Expressions of a belief that if the people were in danger, their gods would send a Hero to protect them? In this case, the vagueness would be intentional - and rational. The prophecies were never meant to mean something specific, but more to speak of a general feeling. A general hope.

So the gods," Moash said, nursing his own drink, "were pleased that you solved problems on your own . . . by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?" "Hush," Rock said. "Is good story.

I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died. But that is unimportant.

She stuck her tongue out at him. A totally rational and reasonable way to fight a demigod.

Kelsier smiled. Gods, it appeared, could still fall for a classic misdirection con.

The world was dying. Its gods had to die with it.

I go to the gods," Rock said. He held up his finger. "There is one who lives here. One afah'liki. He is powerful god, but tricky. You should not have lost his flute." "I … don't think Wit is a god, Rock.

The pact between Preservation and Ruin is a thing of gods, and difficult to explain in human terms. Indeed, initially, there was a stalemate between them. On one hand, each knew that only by working together could they create. On the other hand, both knew that they would never have complete satisfaction in what they created. Preservation would not be able to keep things perfect and unchanging, and Ruin would not be able to destroy completely.

I don't have to believe," the voice drifted back. "I know gods exist. I simply hate them.

How can she believe?" Vivenna said. Denth shrugged. "Seems like a good enough religion to me. I mean, you can go and see her gods. Talk to them, watch them shine. It isn't all that tough to understand.

cottage was a cat, staring at him with watchful eyes. He had the impression it was the same cat as he had killed in his fury. He despised the supernatural. Human beings worked constantly to make their gods unnecessary.

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.

They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.

Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure. It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.