The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time... Votes: 3
William S. BurroughsGods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means. Votes: 3
Tom RobbinsTalking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods. Votes: 3
A. Bartlett GiamattiFor this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give. Votes: 3
Adela Florence NicolsonNot one of you reflects, that you ought know your Gods before you worship them. Votes: 3
Charles SouthwellLife is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy. Votes: 3
Seneca the YoungerMind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. Votes: 3
Matthew ArnoldIn ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Votes: 2
Terry PratchettAs flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareI do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. Votes: 2
Lao TzuIt is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Votes: 2
EpicurusAs to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like. Votes: 2
ProtagorasSpartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThose whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerUnless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself. Votes: 0
Theognis of MegaraIf the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens. Votes: 0
Rick SpringfieldIt is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. Votes: 0
Ryūnosuke AkutagawaIt is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. Votes: 0
Ryūnosuke AkutagawaWe inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinThere are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually. Votes: 0
Robert Anton WilsonThe gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareYou are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly. Votes: 0
Wallace D. WattlesIt's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves. Votes: 0
Dorothy GilmanThe happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. Votes: 0
Robert W. ServiceLet the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws. Votes: 0
Megan Whalen TurnerHe says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIn nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceThe souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life. Votes: 0
Brian RathboneUse him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before. Votes: 0
Janet MorrisIt does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonLet no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.
Francesc Ferrer i GuardiaThe girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.
George R. R. MartinPlay out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
Arthur C. ClarkeIf there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
Friedrich NietzscheMen resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.
Philip Jose FarmerBut Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
Bill WattersonIf 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.
Graham KendallI have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
Robert E. HowardWe often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Seneca the YoungerAnd when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
William ShakespeareMost of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.
Chapman Cohen... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods
David GemmellWhen ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelGods, how I've missed you. (Stryker) I hate you with every beat of my heart. (Zephyra)
Sherrilyn KenyonPeople needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
Terry PratchettAmbition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Alexander PopeOur souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
David GemmellI wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
Jacqueline CareyYou are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs.
Jane RobertsSocrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Michel de MontaigneI hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
William John LockeBefore you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director
David MametIf you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
Joseph CampbellThe gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
Ray BradburyYou can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.
Robert CollierThere exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
Frank HerbertOnce liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
Jean-Paul SartreI believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.
Peter AckroydThe world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.
Carl JungMen are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
George R. R. MartinWhat gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
Joseph CampbellQuos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
Leo TolstoyIf you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.
Michelle WieIf from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
P. D. JamesReligious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.
Richard DawkinsSeneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
Robert A. BurtonMan does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
Stanislaw LemGiven the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.
Stephanie MillsThe body and the soul know how to play In that dark world where gods have lost their way.
Theodore RoethkeIt is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
David AttenboroughHow sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.
Gavin Pretor-PinneyGods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.
Janet MorrisHow wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
Jean de La FontaineThe gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
Melina MarchettaAway from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
Friedrich NietzscheAnimals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
Robert E. HowardOver futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
Amy WinehouseWhom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
Philip K. DickOn any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.
PolybiusFor the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
SophoclesAnd again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
Arthur RimbaudImagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.
Daniel QuinnOne sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
Fay WeldonWhy do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
George R. R. MartinAny object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.
James JoyceWhat in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
John BrunnerWhether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods.
Jordan PetersonIt is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.
Silius ItalicusI've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters
Brendan FraserOccasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.
Charlie DayWhen the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.
EuripidesAnd to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.
Jules LaforgueI shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.
Julian JaynesThe gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.
Robert Jackson BennettBuilding a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
Terry PratchettThe voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
William ShakespeareEvery god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.
Friedrich NietzscheGods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
Janet MorrisIs it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
Ursula K. Le GuinLay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.
HomerNot at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.
HomerI ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
Jorge Luis BorgesThe gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.
Mary QuantIt does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
Mary StewartMaybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
Corita KentWar is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
HeraclitusGreat ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
James A. Garfield...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
John IrvingThere is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.
John SteinbeckThe gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...
Mark TwainOh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
Michel de MontaigneOh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.
Michel de MontaigneThe gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.
Michelle SagaraIn wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]
PlautusDemons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
Sigmund FreudYou have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.
Billy GrahamDo you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods donât think they can become men
Dennis LehaneOurs was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" --
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
Jean-Paul SartreIt is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
MartialTyson! Thank the gods, Annabeth is hurt!" "You thank the gods that she is hurt?" he asked, puzzled.
Rick RiordanMen have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.
T. S. EliotGods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts.
Alistair BeggLoosening control of your life into Gods hands brings an overwhelming sense of peace and confidence.
Dan EllisIf oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.
XenophanesAmerican Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. Votes: 5 Neil Gaiman
People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me. Votes: 1 Tanith Lee
I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods. Votes: 3 Stephen Fry
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. Votes: 1 Theodor Reik
We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands. Votes: 1 Rani Mukerji
Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods. Votes: 1 Whitley Strieber
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Votes: 1 Agnes Repplier
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Votes: 1 Aristotle
The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings. Votes: 1 Apollonius of Tyana
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. Votes: 1 Tom Hiddleston
To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too. Votes: 1 Rick Riordan
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. Votes: 2 Norman Mailer
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods. Votes: 1 Dallas Willard
Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods. Votes: 1 Whitley Strieber
Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order. Votes: 1 Benedict Cumberbatch
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't. Votes: 3 Sam Mendes
Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him. Votes: 2 Rick Warren
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man. Votes: 1 David Bowie
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy. Votes: 1 Leon Bourgeois
Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me. Votes: 1 John Piper
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens. Votes: 1 Rick Springfield
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. Votes: 2 C. S. Lewis
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama. Votes: 1 Lillian Hellman
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved. Votes: 1 John Knox
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved. Votes: 1 John Knox
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Votes: 1 Charles A. Beard
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. Votes: 4 C. A. Bartol
If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this. Votes: 1 Ellen G. White
If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this. Votes: 1 Ellen G. White
From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling. Votes: 1 Stanley B. Prusiner