Gods

Famous quotes containing the word gods:

“Down from the waist they are centaurs,
Though women all above;
But to the girdle do the gods inherit,
Beneath is all the fiends’: there’s hell, there’s darkness,
There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding,
Stench, consumption.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“People invent gods to explain their suffering.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.”
—E.M. Cioran (1911–1995)