800 Quotes About Gods

He had lost the bright gods, and he had not been accepted by the dark. He was in a no soul’s land, and in its isolation his own soul was withdrawn, small and heavy as a stone within him, and about his evil deed. No wonder it could not take wing and make the heralding music. That was the whole of reality now, the little stone inside, and outside the cold, dark ravine and the inescapable watcher.

The gods are business-like. They sell; they do not give. And for what they sell they demand a heavy price. We may buy life of them in many ways; with our honour, our health, our independence, our happiness; with our brains or with our hands. But somehow or other, in whatever currency we may choose to pay it, the price must be paid.

We can't arrange gods by coolness. That would lead to too many fights.

Storm’s coming, boys. Doesn’t bode well, not with the moonrise tonight.

There are gods within gods.

Then ... some of the Jötnar are also your gods? I asked. Some are, Leif answered, and some are not.

Ancient Greece the philosopher Epicurus explained that worshipping gods is a waste of time, that there is no existence after death, and that happiness is the sole purpose of life.

Gods have no one to pray to.

Let a god change anything, and there will be reactions of evil as much as good. Only stupidity can be divine.