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Quotes About Mythology

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
~ Propertius
Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground.
~ Hiromu Arakawa
Take away the Big Bang and what has God done? Burned a bush and got a girl pregnant. Great, he's a high school junior.
~ Stephen Colbert
...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have been or will be invented.
~ Richard Dawkins
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
~ Samuel Butler
Either a beast or a god.
~ Aristotle
Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.
~ Richelle Mead
Um," Grover said. "Percy?" "Yeah?" "I thought you'd want to know." "Yeah?" "Cerberus? He's saying we've got ten seconds to pray to the god of our choice.After that...well...he's hungry.
~ Rick Riordan
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
~ Emile M. Cioran
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.
~ T. S. Eliot
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
~ Sinclair Lewis
The gods have become our diseases.
~ C.G. Jung
No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.
~ Michael Cadnum
Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.
~ Robin Lane Fox
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
~ George Santayana
If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.
~ Graham Kendall
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
~ Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.
~ Graham Kendall
Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.
~ Janet Morris
The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.
~ Ovid
Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace." "Whatever," the god said.
~ Rick Riordan