Quotes About Gods

Tyrion turned to Sansa. "My lady, I am sorry for your losses. Truly, the gods are cruel." Sansa could not think of a word to say to him. How could he be sorry for her losses? Was he mocking her? It wasn't the gods who'd been cruel, it was Joffrey.

be careful what you say. The gods may not be the only ones listening.

Then Lord Eddard is a man in ten thousand. Most of us are not so strong. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms... Or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Pain is a gift from the gods, Lord Eddard,

These wolves are more than wolves, Robb. You must know that. I think perhaps the gods sent them to us. Your father's gods, the old gods of the north. Five wolf pups, Robb, five for five Stark children.

Men are mad and gods are madder.

Even now, he did not know if he was doing the honorable thing. The southron had it easier. They had their septons to talk to, someone to tell them the gods will and help sort out right from wrong. But, the Starks worshiped the old gods, the nameless gods, the nameless gods, and if the heart trees heard, they did not speak.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?

The cold gods," she said. "The ones in the night. The white shadows.

In this world, a man must learn to seize whatever gifts the gods chose to send him. That was a lesson I learned at some cost. I offer it to you as a sign of my good faith.

Siamo solamente esseri umani, Jon Snow, e gli dei ci hanno foggiato perché si possa amare. É la nostra gloria più grande, e anche la nostra tragedia più terribile.

All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, and yet this seven-times-damned she-wolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn. The

Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above.

What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men's souls, however. He gives his gift to the best of men as he gives it to the worst. Elsewise the good would live forever." The

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop from the heavens to the horizon, he risks setting it on some scene of desolation.

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

The gods help those who help themselves.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.