„The hand that rounded Peter’s dome,And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,Wrought in a sad sincerity,Himself from God he could not free;He builded better than he knew,The conscious stone to beauty grew.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„Barzai knew so much of the gods that he could tell of their comings and goings, and guessed so many of their secrets that he was deemed half a god himself.“
— H.P. Lovecraft
„We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.“
— Jack Kerouac
„We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone,Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought,And in the forms of gods and heroes wroughtEternal beauty from the sculptured stone“
— Margaret Fuller
„He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.“
— James Joyce
„God is not good, or else he could do better.“
— Meister Eckhart