The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore.
They never liked us, did they?
Gods don't "like". They love, they hate, they ignore...
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They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us ...
KAMAND KOJOURI All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themsel...
HOMER As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are the gods not just?"
"Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?
C.S. LEWIS The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Now they have a riddle.
- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call t...
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY When they judge you, yawn.
When they misunderstand you, smile.
When they underestimate you...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor...
DEYTH BANGER They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star...
DEYTH BANGER I was a victim of violence... No reason for vileonce just few sucirity guards came... we were 3... t...
DEYTH BANGER They won't live their lives...
They see things they don't wanna see
Yet they won't shut t...
FLONJA AKSHIJA Our bodies knock
and we pretend like we can't hear
They knock to tell us to ...
MALEBO SEPHODI They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have n...
ERNEST DOWSON "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The deadline is set and they think I am their pet.
SANTOSH KALWAR And so they fought.
And so they laughed.
Friends.
And before they knew it,
They ...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO They took my books
because my message was love.
They took my pen
because my words wer...
KAMAND KOJOURI So the world ended.
And the next one began.
They were infinite.
The...
SARAH J. MAAS In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON Lovers dream of one more embrace.
One more kiss.
One act of love, no matter how small.
KAMAND KOJOURI They tell us the only way to move on
is to forget.
“Forgive,” they say.
Realise ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Chris, soap people are like
us-they seldom go outdoors. And when they do, we only hear about it...
V.C. ANDREWS some kill their love when they are young,
and some when they are old;
some strangle with t...
OSCAR WILDE But some relationships aren't meant to last.
They are worthy only till the time the two p...
SANHITA BARUAH They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will b...
MUSE They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER despite knowing
they won’t be here for long
they still choose to live
their brighte...
RUPI KAUR They don't really care that much about the family farm anymore.
DAN QUAYLE There’s this thing about shadows.
They mimic us. They are a constant reminder of the fact tha...
CHIRAG TULSIANI REMAIN #YOU'!!!!
When people challenge you, they are already threatened by you..
...
ABHA MARYADA BANERJEE They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will...
JAMES ROZOFF I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round a...
SYLVIA PLATH Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," ...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall...
GEORGE HARRISON When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our answers were thing like a...
STEPHENIE MEYER When they try to judge you,
remember, they themselves are judged.
When they try to condemn...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Why I Cannot Relate
"What do you think of this piece?" Someone will ask
About some w...
KYLEE CARRIER They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
RALPH BAKSHI They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reasons... questions... what they have in common?
- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans.
DEYTH BANGER How they are all about, these gentlemen
In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,
Like ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
OSCAR WILDE When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
OSCAR WILDE If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?"
When he didn't answer - couldn'...
JODI PICOULT Blue Planet Phenomenon.
she’s from the pink planet called Constellation
he’s f...
R.M. ROMARNEY People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is wh...
NOEL COWARD Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they j...
BOB MARLEY They told us we were the safest people on Earth because
they had 180 Marines up there,
HENRY THOMPSON Words
are powerful
forces of nature.
they are destruction.
they are nouris...
SANOBER KHAN They can take tomorrow and the plans we made
They can take the music that we'll never play LEONA LEWIS Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant)
LUCIUS ACCIUS Such is the world
that I can no longer
bear to say prayers,
for I am sick
of...
ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE, 612 BC ... bright young men of disheveled appearance, often with
sunken glowing eyes, can be seen sitt...
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM So furiously each other did assayle,
As if their soules they would attonce haue rent
Out...
EDMUND SPENSER What if dragons breathed bubbles
and purred when they cuddled
and giggled at chivalrous ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Love has no opposite.
Hate, fear, are not love’s opposites;
they are its denial.
IVAN M. GRANGER When sad she brings the thunder
And her tears, they bring the rain
When ill she feeds a...
ALETHEA KONTIS She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched f...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Some people discard their childhood like an old hat.
They forget about it like a phone number ...
ERICK KäSTNER With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.<...
LAURENCE ROBERT BINYON When people cannot use you,
They will call you selfish and mean,
They don’t know your s...
CHARMAINE J FORDE It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time.
Not as though we...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON All monotheisms should return to their respective times with our thanks for everything.
This is...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Nothing can escape death.
Not even the Sun.
Not even the Earth.
Not even the unive...
HINA YU The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI She was his dawn of bliss
He was her dusk of wounds,
Each day they came up to
See a...
TANYA GAMBHIR When they ran up to him, Percy said, 'Hey,' like they were just meeting for lunch or something.
RICK RIORDAN One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing S...
TERRY PRATCHETT In that same year, NYU conducted its own study. With rats. They implanted electrodes in the brains o...
EMMA CHASE People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done,...
VICTORIA SCHWAB they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A thousand years or more ago,
When I was newly sewn,
There lived four wizards of renown, J.K. ROWLING And these things
that keep alive on departure know that
you praise them; transient,
...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, yes, it ended in my corrupting them all! How it could
come to pass I do not know, but I re...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In the beginning we were a group of nine.
Three are gone, dead.
There are six of us ...
PITTACUS LORE I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we wo...
RICK RIORDAN So, we had a good time together?"
"We had a VERY good time together."
GOD. They'd fucked l...
AMY ANDREWS This is the world we live in,
a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without
l...
LAUREN OLIVER He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his an...
L'PONI BALDWIN They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their...
EDWARD LEAR Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misundersto...
J.K. ROWLING confront your greatest fears
voice your biggest problems
acknowledge your tiniest issues CONNOR FRANTA they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN All round me are words, and words and words,
They grow on me like leaves, they never
Seem ...
KAMALA SURAIYYA DAS Some people don't care if they live or they die.
Some people want to know what it feels like to...
PATTY GRIFFIN It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'
MICHELLE PHAN ...Yeah a lot of you have to do... I have gave you one up to three films and books... in other day o...
DEYTH BANGER Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....
DEYTH BANGER The ugly parts of love can’t lift you up.
They bring you
D
O
W
N.
Th...
COLLEEN HOOVER Well we're waiting here in Allentown,
For the Pennsylvania we never found,
For the promise...
BILLY JOEL For there is no such thing:
Right person at the right time!
Instead with the right team,...
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NEIL GAIMAN I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrif...
NEIL GAIMAN We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bea...
NEIL GAIMAN The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They a...
NEIL GAIMAN We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMAN Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves i...
NEIL GAIMAN A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...
NEIL GAIMAN Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
NEIL GAIMAN I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
NEIL GAIMAN Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...
NEIL GAIMAN Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
NEIL GAIMAN I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
NEIL GAIMAN Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
NEIL GAIMAN Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
NEIL GAIMAN Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...
NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
NEIL GAIMAN This little piggy went to Hades
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy ate raw an...
NEIL GAIMAN