History Quotes / DeityOfHumanOrigin

->''"I wasn't born into the god business. I earned it."''

-->-- {{Creator/Voltaire}}

-->-- ''Entry on Talos'', ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' wiki.

->''Sabrina is her name: a virgin pure;\\

Made Goddess of the river. ''
-->--'''Creator/JohnMilton''', ''Theatre/{{Comus}}''

-->--''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "The Boiling Rock, Part One"

And there was light --
-->--''The Last Question'', by Creator/IsaacAsimov

-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Followers Of Set''

->''Remember in the Old Testament, when Moses kept disappearing off up that mountain because God wanted a chat? And Moses' people got so nervous and angry about not having a constant representative of divinity, by which I mean old Moses, that they built their own god instead. You remember some bastard hacked together a golden cow and said, okay, this is our god now and everything will be fine. That's how we work. The whole of religious history is about us trying to build amazing creatures to save the world.''
->[Transition to double-page spread of London in ruins, with the Thames clogged with wrecked boats and floating corpses]
->''[[SarcasmMode So that worked out alright, then]].''
-->--'''Reddin,''' ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}''

->Time was for other creatures. [[{{Immortality}} Time's arrow did not carry me along with it]].
->I knew nothing of this. I was a mere creature, for all my multitudes, for all my powers, I was, after all, a mere mortal creature. It was as if one of the primitive Andalites I'd known had [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence suddenly been thrust]] into the command center of a starship. I was an ignorant savage. An extreme primitive.
->But I knew this: As simple and primitive as I might be, [[RealityWarper I could literally touch and move the vibrating lines of space-time]].
-->--'''The Ellimist,''' ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} - The Ellimist Chronicles''

-> I couldn't help but think that our religions were an oddity flying in the face of Setharii inclinations towards practical cynicism. It was as if people refused to believe their gods had once been mortal men and women. Granted, their gods had been born [[OurMagesAreDifferent Gifted]], but they had still soiled their swaddling and spewed milk all over their parents at the most inopportune of times. Given time and centuries of hard work - and knowing that secret in my head - perhaps even [[BlueCollarWarlock the likes of me]] could find a way to become a god. Hah, wouldn't that fuck them up!
-->--''Literature/TheTraitorGod,'' by Cameron Johnston

->In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned to store knowledge in the structure of space itself, and to preserve their thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light. [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence They would become creatures of radiation, free at last from the tyranny of matter]]. Into PureEnergy, therefore, they presently transformed themselves; and on a thousand worlds, [[SapientShip the empty shells]] they had discarded twitched for a while in a mindless dance of death, then crumbled into rust.
->Now they were lords of the galaxy and [[CompleteImmortality beyond the reach of time]]. They could rove at will among the stars, and sink like a subtle mist through the very interstices of space. But despite their godlike powers, they had not wholly forgotten their origin, in the warm slime of a vanished sea. [[BenevolentPrecursors And they still watched over the experiments their ancestors had started, so long ago]].
-->--''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''

->'''Kazwa:''' The donors lost their individual personalities and began part of a gestalt intelligence that controlled the planet. A unified entity that sped up the creation of the biosphere from millions of years to barely three. Creation was no longer in the hands of random chance: it was controlled by this intelligent gestalt - which we believed would be under our control.
->'''Lister:''' Then why are you, uh, still here?
->'''Kazwa:''' We used DNA extracted from Cyberian inmates. After the gestalt had been created, we discovered it was a malign entity - because it had been created from the scum of our society. It was [[GodOfEvil a deceitful and wicked god]] who punished the just, rewarded the wicked and encouraged evil. The gestalt only allowed the dark side of our natures to prosper and soon the planet became inhabited by the cream of evil. Finally, the [[VillainWorld Black Planet]], as it became known, passed through the ring and now exists in some other dimension of reality.
->'''Lister:''' [[AesopAmnesia So then you started again?]]
->'''Kazwa:''' With a new gestalt on a new planet. But this time we didn't use the guilty inmates of a penal colony - [[PoweredByAForsakenChild we used the innocent]].
-->--''Literature/RedDwarf: Last Human''

-->--'''Rick Sanchez''', ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS4E5RattlestarRicklactica Rattlestar Ricklactica]]"

-->--''Music/{{Extreme}}'', "Peacemaker Die"

-->--'''Ferris''', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiNINE''

->"God?" said Mark. "How does He come into it? I don't believe in God."
->"But, my friend," said [[PlayingWithSyringes Filostrato]], "does it follow that because there was no God in the past that there will be no God also in the future?"
->"Don't you see," said [[SinisterMinister Straik]], "that we are offering you the unspeakable glory of being present at the creation of God Almighty? Here, in this house, you shall meet the first draught of the real God. It is a man--or a being made by man--who will finally [[AGodAmI ascend the throne of the universe]]. And rule forever."
-->--''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'' by Creator/CSLewis