Quotes About Gods

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

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.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.