From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Xenophanes

Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always love the people who make em.
Zora Neale Hurston

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
Empedocles

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.
Maxwell Anderson

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."
Terry Pratchett

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
David Bowie

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Diogenes

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Max Beerbohm

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
Themistocles

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
Laurence Olivier

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
Brendan Fraser