Quote by Jo Nesbø Download Open image ““there were gods who needed to be worshipped and placated, and the currency for that was blood.”” — Jo Nesbø ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.” — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped... Half gods are worshipped in… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Money was our god, and we worshiped it with the blindness of true believers.” — Navessa Allen Copy Share Image
“A deeper significance is attached to sacrifice, when the worshipping self and the gods worshipped are realised to be the same.” — Satischandra Chatterjee Copy Share Image
“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood.” — von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Copy Share Image
“Upon any altar a tiny distance separates the worshipped from the sacrifice.” — John Morse Copy Share Image
“We have worshipped at the altar of inclusion when we were built to worship at the altar of the only living God.” — Lisa-Jo Baker Copy Share Image
“And the living prayed to their gods and begged for rescue from the armies of the dead, and there was no answer. For there… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?” — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
“It’s strange, but when your father has gone you suddenly discover that the choices you have made were as much for him as for… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“The great thing about facts is that you don't have to ponder whether they're desirable or not.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“He who is destined for the gallows will not drown, as we say in Norwegian,” Harry said. “What?” “I agree.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“He sensed her aroma and greedily breathed in the fragrance. He must not let himself be duped. Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“That morality—which some people imagine is God-given and eternal—is as malleable and learned as our ideas of beauty, our enemies, our fashion trends.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“I just know that when I’m walking on the wafer-thin ice of happiness, I’m terrified, so terrified that I wish it was over, that… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“longevity bestowed respect, even upon a whorehouse madam if she kept going for long enough.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Man's ability to think rationally when self-interest was at stake was inversely proportional to intelligence. - Aune” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“A sudden, uncontrollable fury rose in him, and he cast around for something to smash. He snatched the whiskey bottle from the table and… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Norwegians were not exactly what you might call a cultured people - Nikolai Loeb” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image