A Quote by Homer

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

Homer

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Did Gods Hard Her Know Mortals Recognize

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Homer
Greek - Poet

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Xenophanes

If I were to believe in the stories of the of the gods, then the gods do not need mortals to defend them, do they?

Kamal Haasan

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Trudi Canavan

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

Xenophanes

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

George R. R. Martin

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

Tamora Pierce

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

Homer

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

Ted Hughes

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Plautus

Maybe I'm not good for you. Maybe what I feel is wrong. Because I did love Ashton. She was all I needed... but never did I feel the uncontrollable desire to get her underneath me. Never did I make up reasons to get her to wrap her legs around me so I could feel her pressed up against me. Never. He swallowed hard. "Never did I think about being inside her

Abbi Glines

This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.