Quotes About Gods

Los dioses ciegan a quienes quieren perder.

Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them.

Perfect worlds do not exist. There are only the funny, strange, weeping, singing, truncated, and imperfect universes created by the gods of paintbrush and musical instruments, the gods who infuse their creations with their own blood, their own soul. When he looks at these worlds, the true Lord of Hosts, the creator of the universe, probably cannot help but smile mockingly

Everything in life begins as a dream. That is how the gods speak to us. First the dream and then the reality. Believe that and work for it and then the gods are on your side.

Quel champ de bataille que l'homme ! Nous sommes livrés à ces dieux, à ces monstres, à ces géants, nos pensées.

Alaska was full of fringe-ists. People who believed in weirdo things and prayed to exclusionary Gods and filled their basements with equal measures of guns and Bibles. If you wanted to live in a place where no one told you what to do and didn't care if you parked a trailer in your yard or had a fridge on your porch, Alaska was the state for you.

Up here, in the vastness of Alaska, the words sounded infinitesimal and small. A fist shaken at the gods.

Once upon a time, there had been gods. Now there were only children going about in their dead parents' undergarments.

You were kinder to yourselves in your legend than we were," Karou continued. "We made ourselves out of grief. You made yourselves in your gods' image, and with a noble purpose: to bring light to the worlds." "A black job we've done of it," he said.

The gods had been dead for fifteen years, after all, but their hate had lingered, and ruled in their stead.

What good were bright gods who only watched from afar while dark gods strove every moment to devour you?

Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever, fair-haired boy.

It wasn't feigned but true, and so after more than two years of wondering what had become of him, Azareen found out. In addition to the misery of serving the gods' "purpose," it was her fate to watch her husband love the goddess of despair.

Theirs wasn't the only love story ended by the gods, but it was the only one that ended the gods.

Ya, Kahyangan memang tak adil. Atau bisa adil dalam ketakadilan. Kita bisa mengeluh, mengejek, memaki-maki, memohon, mengelabui, menghujat, berbaik-baik, berteman, bahkan bercinta dengan para dewa, tapi kita telah belajar untuk tidak mengharapkan lebih banyak lagi dari uluran "niat baik" mereka.

In the words of Euripides, 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad'.

Was her God up there in the sky as she believed? Did he truly hear man's whispers,his thoughts? Hunter could see his own Gods,Mother Earth,Mother Moon, Father Sun, the wind coming from four directions. It was easy to believe in what he could see. Why did Loretta's God hide himself?

This is the Hermes who, on the authority of Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods [3.22.56], was called by the Egyptians [Thoth or] Theuth (from which the Greeks are said to have derived theos),

Homer, whose own language was certainly heroic, in five passages from his two poems [437] mentions a more ancient language and calls it "the language of the gods.

Varro had the diligence to collect thirty thousand names of gods—for the Greeks counted that many. These were related to as many needs of the physical, moral, economic, or civil life of the earliest times.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshiped as gods. This makes them too prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share. They stare rebukingly. They view with concern. And on a sensitive man this often has the worst effects, including an inferiority complex of the gravest kind.

To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but to the wolf and the wild dog that have come in to crouch at man's feet, this grief has never come.

Adaleti de adaletsizli?i de kendi tanr?lar?n?n elinden almas? gerekiyordu.