Tom Hiddleston Quotes

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

All Gods were immortal.

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

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

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

Fear first created the gods.

'You're Dionysus,' I said. 'The god of wine.' Mr. D rolled his eyes. 'What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say "Well duh!"?' 'Y-yes, Mr. D.' 'Then, "Well, duh!" Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?' 'You're a god.' 'Yes, child.' 'A god. You.'

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.

You’ve read about the goddesses, come on. They’re an international sensation. These are my girlfriends. These are the women that I love that have completed the three parts of my heart.

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.