I almost forgot how gorgeous Adonis is,” she [Ava] said, “We should have made him one of us.”She [Ava] wouldn’t have gotten any argument out of me, but a strange sound escaped from James, almost...

You have your God, I have my guts.

Maybe that’s bullshit. I happen to like the beasts.

So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.

I am a god. I don’t do fair.

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

O que eu sei é que somos trágicos. Os deuses escolheram assim. Somos todos uma brincadeira deles, marionetes que envelhecem rápido demais, uma experienciazinha carnal – de modo que não lhes interessa a parcimônia: criam...

{From Luther Burbank’s funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death threats. He tried to amiably answer them all, leading to his death}It is impossible to...

Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander.

The wine god sighed. ‘Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete...

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was...

Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for...

the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

Humanized gods are too small to captivate my imagination, or be worthy of my fullest allegiance.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Now that I think of it—I don’t know why I would besurprised.

I think we have underestimated their Gods; they have made millions stupid, and we are even not able to get one out of that stupidity.

I, while the gods laugh, the world’s vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;And in small compass the dark waters cram.- I, While the Gods Laugh,...

At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In the West Highlands charms were used to avert their influence. In the Isle...

In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough and ruthless barbarians the virtues of tenderness and compassion. The great cathedrals of...

Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.

I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”A god named Fred?

Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark, demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend, and yet when they had that attention and those answers, they complained about them.

All living things believe in someone superior to them, and cannot live unless they blindly follow them. Then, the objects of their faith try to escape this crushing pressure by seeking another being that is...

As someone has said “gods” is not really the plural of God; God has no plural.

I’m Hindu.

… Atal felt a spectral change in the air, as if the laws of earth were bowing to greater laws…

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

Corvid looked up at her. “Oh, hello Doris.””Gertie, dear,” she said. “They call me Gertie.””You used to be Doris,” Corvid said as a matter of fact.”Who?” She seemed unsure of what she was being told.”Doris,...

God is a supreme-being.God is all powerful.God is the creator of all things.God is great.God is mighty.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

But I found signs of their trespass: a burned patch planted with a fistful of grain, a tree felled or stripped of fruit, a deer strung up in a snare. I never saw a poacher....

…a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

If I’d learned anything, it was that the gods never had good news – especially when it was delivered by the resurrected corpse of your worst enemy.

No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret...

A silhouette stepped toward us, and another wave of pure power ripped through the throne room. “I’m only going to warn you once, Cronus,” said a voice, dark and dangerous. “Get the hell away from...

The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life.

Velikost historických osobností nikdy nespočívala v jejich absolutním podrobení konvenci, ale tkvěla naopak v jejich osvobození od konvence a ve spásné svobodě. Vyčnívaly jako vrcholky hor z masy, která setrvávala v zajetí kolektivních úzkostí, přesvědčení,...

Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.

I have a serious question.””I will give a serious answer.””Can a god be killed?”The humor drained from Roman’s face. “Well, that depends on if you’re a pantheist or a Marxist.””What’s the difference?””The first believes that...

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do...

I’m gonna kick your miserable ass, God!

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist principles. When I say religion, I do not mean merely a theology involving...

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods...

The gods of the realms are many and varied — or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not — and care not — which.

Those ruffians, the Gods, shan’t have it all their own way,– her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all...