Mr. Wednesday

Character in American Gods From: American Gods

Mysterious con man; revealed to be Odin, leader of the old gods

138 quotes

"The country is full of people who believe in nothing."
Philosophy
"I am what people need me to be."
Power
"Belief is the currency of gods."
Faith
"I have walked this earth for centuries."
Wisdom
"I will not be forgotten."
Perseverance
"Sacrifice is the price of power."
Power
"You were born to do great things."
Dreams
"Everything has a price, and the price is always paid."
Philosophy
"You're on a road. Nothing but sky and desert and rock. Just like the past."
Time
"You pay attention, the world will change. You stop paying attention, it won't."
Wisdom
"Every culture builds its gods from its needs."
Wisdom
"The world is equally strange to all of us."
Philosophy
"We are the old gods. We require belief, sacrifice, and worship."
Faith
"We live in a world of symbols and stories."
Literature
"The price of power is always paid by someone."
Power
"Every coin has two sides."
Wisdom
"Every sacrifice demands a price."
Wisdom
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
Wisdom
"Believe nothing."
Wisdom
"America is not a young land; it is old and dirty and evil before it was America."
History
"Worship is belief in action."
Faith
"Sacrifice without belief is just waste."
Faith
"America devours its gods and spits out their bones."
History
"A man who doesn't know his story is a man lost."
Literature
"The price of immortality is eternal loneliness."
Wisdom
"In the old days, you needed a reason to believe."
Faith
"Gods need belief like plants need light."
Faith
"Fear can make you do more wrong than hate ever will."
Fear
"Every coin has two sides."
Wisdom
"You can't argue with your own mythology."
Wisdom