800 Quotes About Gods
- Author Virgil
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Live, and prosper, for all your adventures are past. We are called onwards from destiny to destiny. For you, your rest is won.
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- Author Virgil
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To each man shall his own free actions bring both his suffering and his good fortune. Jupiter is impartially king over all alike. The Fates will find the way.
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- Author Virgil
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Meanwhile Aeneas the True longed to allay her grief and dispel her sufferings with kind words. yet he remained obedient to the divine command, and with many a sigh, for he was shaken to the depths by the strength of his love, returned to his ships.
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- Author Virgil
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So therefore you must lift up your eyes and seek to discern this bough, find it as is required of you, and pick it boldly.Then, if it is indeed you whom the fates are calling, it will come willingly and easily
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- Author Virgil
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Those gods on whom our power hitherto depended have forsaken their altars and their shrines and gone forth from us; the city which you would rescue is already ablaze; and it is for us to plunge amid the spears and die. Nothing can save the conquered but the knowledge that they cannot now be saved.
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- Author Virgil
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Sweet relics, sweet so long as God and Destiny allowed, now receive my life-breath, and set me free from this suffering. I have lived my life and finished the course which Fortune allotted me.
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- Author Ben Willoughby
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The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?
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- Author Homer
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Hector...boast while you may. The victory is yours, a gift from Zeus the Son of Cronos and Apollo. They conquered me...Listen to this and ponder it well. You too, I swear it, have not long to live. Already sovran Destiny and Death are very close to you, death at the hands of Achilles, the peerless son of Peleus
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- Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Fate is a force more powerful than gods, a fact they resent, since mortals are often given more leeway and may be able to navigate its current.
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