# Quote — Tanith Lee, Night’s Master

> Men cried to their gods. In the morning they would slay each other; by night, fresh from the battlefield, they raved before unreplying altars. So they came to hate even the gods, and smashed their images and defiled their sanctums. “There are no gods!” they cried. “Then who has done this thing to us?”

- Author: [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md)
- Book: [Night’s Master](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-master.md)
- Page: 169
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tanith_Lee#Night's_Master_(1978)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-master/men-cried-to-their

## More from this book

> Who would dare invite such a smoke? To some it might be healing, but to others, bane. Breathed in at the nostrils, it seemed to fill the eyes and ears and brain. To a man who knew many things, it would reveal many more, to a man who knew little it would reveal too much. Its name was self-knowledge.

p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-master/who-would-dare.md)

> “What else is she like?”
>
> The Eshva sighed at the touch of Azhrarn’s fingers. The sigh said this: Like a white moth at dusk, a night-blooming lily. Like music played by the reflection of a swan as it passes over the strings of a moonlit lake.

p. 127 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-master/what-else-is-she.md)

> Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

p. 167 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-master/flat-or-round.md)