The Gods Themselves Quotes

Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The gods help them that help themselves. — Aesop

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods
Themselves are cherished. — Ovid

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves? — George R R Martin

Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it
the only satisfactory theodicy! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. — Friedrich Schiller

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned. — Peter Ackroyd

We're using the gifts of God as if they themselves are gods. — Matt Chandler

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Even Gods have sought out gurus for themselves. — Santosh Kalwar

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves. — Trudi Canavan

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods. — Megan Whalen Turner

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- — Langston Hughes

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves. — Aleister Crowley

Those who deck themselves out in stolen gods are not viable. — Halldor Laxness

There's no shame in loving life above death. Otherwise I would be dead. What use would that be to the gods, who will not die themselves? — Erica Jong

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster. — Margaret Drabble

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest. — Nenia Campbell

We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now — Jacqueline Carey

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves. — Ben Okri

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves. — Ki Longfellow

Nasty things, you know, gods, they don't much care for anyone other than themselves. — Charlie Higson

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. — Isaac Asimov

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. — Robert A. Heinlein

The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself. — Terry Pratchett

The gods help them who help themselves. — Aesop

Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves. — Abhijit Naskar

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. — Friedrich Schiller