#gods

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

#brief #dead #even #ever #fear

Gods always love the people who make em. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#gods #love #make #people #who

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#perfect #shining #us #weather

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#ascribed #fifty #forces #given #gods

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes! ↗

— Jean Racine

#gods #hopes #misery #thank

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves. ↗

— Xenophanes

#bodies #cattle #draw #each #forms

Nay, father. Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party. - Thor, God of Thunder ↗

— Matt Fraction

#gods #mythology #age

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth. ↗

— Maud Casey

#gods #mythology #understanding #age

You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#frustration #gameboard-of-the-gods #outsider #age

I slept with her because she was hot and wanted me. Maybe we're dealing with the supernatural, but I'm still human. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#lust #supernatural #age