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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
— Neil Gaiman
The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
— Anne Rice
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
— Peter Porter
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.
— Paul McAuley
Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.
— Charles Darwin
The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
— L.M. Montgomery
The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature.
— Abhijit Naskar
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
— William Shakespeare
You want to wake the Old Gods, don't you?" "Yes." "Well then, go where the Old Gods are accustomed to be worshipped.
— Dion Fortune
My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid's curse,
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse! — George Peele
Concludes with Cupid's curse,
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse! — George Peele
I am old, but the Gods still love me.
— Erich Von Daniken
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
— George Bernard Shaw
At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.
— Michael LaRocca
Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.
— George R R Martin
You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Old gods do new jobs.
— Terry Pratchett
Asgard has fallen. The gods are dead. The old oaths have been broken. And tell all who will hear: the Valkyrie ride to war.
— Pierce Brown
If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.
— Sue Grafton
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
— David Harsanyi
The Drowned Gods makes men," old Aaron Redhand said, "thousands of years ago." "But it's men who make crowns.
— George R R Martin
Don't moralize at me! I have no love
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how. — Herbert Mason
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how. — Herbert Mason
Red Rahloo means nothing here. You will only make the old gods angry. They are watching from their island.
— George R R Martin
Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.
— Richard Henry Stoddard
Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings - stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
— Greg Bear
But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
— Bill Watterson
No. The old gods ain't big on 'sorry,'" said Granny, pacing up and down again. "They know it's just a word.
— Terry Pratchett
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
— Plato
Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes.
— George R R Martin
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
— Joseph Campbell