Gods Quotes

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

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.

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.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.