Hades Quote by Diodorus Siculus

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“When you’re moved to find out who you are, study the graves you encounter as you pass by.Inside rest the bones and weightless dust…

— Menander c. 305 BC

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who…

— Denis Johnston

“Hermes visited him in the Underworld a few days before the spring equinox festival, cajoling Hades to come to it. Hades wandered across the…

— Molly Ringle

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

— Leopold von Ranke

“For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.”

— Friedrich Holderlin

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. (tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox)”

— Stanislaw Lem

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

Men create the gods in their own image.

— Xenophanes

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

— Lucan

“I will see you again,’ Hades promised. ‘I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps…

— Rick Riordan