--- title: "8 Gods Immortal Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Gods Immortal quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Gods Immortal sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c47/wendy-doniger-32713_death_as-the-hindu-gods-are-immortal-only-in-a_72908.png" --- > [“As the Hindu gods are ‘immortal’ only in a very particular sense – for they are born, and they die – they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-doniger/as-the-hindu-gods-are-immortal-only-in-a-very-particular-sense-for/) [Wendy Doniger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-doniger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c47/wendy-doniger-32713_death_as-the-hindu-gods-are-immortal-only-in-a_72908.png) > [As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/as-the-hindu-gods-are-immortal-only-in-a-very-particular-sense-for-2/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50f/anonymous-1_actors_as-the-hindu-gods-are-immortal-only-in-a_107866.jpg) > [What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heraclitus/what-are-men-mortal-gods-what-are-gods-immortal-men/) [Heraclitus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heraclitus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb3/heraclitus-1050_death_what-are-men-mortal-gods-what-are-gods-i_442522.jpg) > [Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lactantius/therefore-if-the-gods-are-immortal-and-eternal-what-need-is-there-of/) [Lactantius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lactantius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02b/lactantius-20886_always_therefore-if-the-gods-are-immortal-and-e_525952.jpg) > [The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heraclitus/the-gods-are-immortal-men-and-men-are-mortal-gods/) [Heraclitus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heraclitus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d4/heraclitus-1050_death_the-gods-are-immortal-men-and-men-are-mo_1407371.jpg) > [All Gods were immortal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanislaw-jerzy-lec/all-gods-were-immortal/) [Stanislaw Jerzy Lec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanislaw-jerzy-lec/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/stanislaw-jerzy-lec-3312_atheism_all-gods-were-immortal-2048031_2048031.png) > [The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/the-sun-rose-on-the-flawless-brimming-sea-into-a-sky-all-brazen-all/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23d/homer-357_brazen_the-sun-rose-on-the-flawless-brimming-se_2224003.png) > [“Zeus in his sphere of power, Aphrodite in hers, are irresistible. To be a god is to be totally absorbed in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-knox/zeus-in-his-sphere-of-power-aphrodite-in-hers-are-irresistible-to-be/) [Bernard Knox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-knox/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/bernard-knox-71403_classics_zeus-in-his-sphere-of-power-aphrodite-in_3057378.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gods-immortal/#itemlist", "name": "Gods Immortal Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As the Hindu gods are ‘immortal’ only in a very particular sense – for they are born, and they die – they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals only in a few trivial details (gods do not sweat or blink, for example) and from demons even less. 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But they are not gods, not immortal. They are subject, like the rest of us, to failure, above all to the irremediable failure of death. 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