#gods

Never say never,” he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. “The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#gods #love

The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#love

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards. ↗

— Francis Chan

#love

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#among #discover #forces #gods #heavens

The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love? ↗

— Lev Grossman

#love #love

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#gods #jackson-brodie #men #women #men

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humanity #men

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#men #men

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#men #men

Then the woman in the bed sat up and looked about her with wild eyes; and the oldest of the old men said: 'Lady, we have come to write down the names of the immortals,’ and at his words a look of great joy came into her face. Presently she, began to speak slowly, and yet eagerly, as though she knew she had but a little while to live, and, in English, with the accent of their own country; and she told them the secret names of the immortals of many lands, and of the colours, and odours, and weapons, and instruments of music and instruments of handicraft they held dearest; but most about the immortals of Ireland and of their love for the cauldron, and the whetstone, and the sword, and the spear, and the hills of the Shee, and the horns of the moon, and the Grey Wind, and the Yellow Wind, and the Black Wind, and the Red Wind. ("The Adoration of the Magi") ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#ireland #mythology #love