Myth Quotes

The ‘doctrines’ we get out of the true myth are of course less true: they are translations into our ...

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and...

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without cea...

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich signific...

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, huma...

As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practica...

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo...

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the cul...

Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red o...

Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red o...

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-ju...

[When asked about his thoughts on gods]I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a st...

They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired...

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You co...

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a...

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our con...

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the grow...

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human b...

Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must...

Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind those forms and usages, as it wer...

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an...

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

Baumeister's point is that we have a deep need to understand violence and cruelty through what he ca...

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.We must be willing to get rid of the life we plann...

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears...

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primit...

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in t...

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you und...

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar...

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With ou...

For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully...

If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative ...

We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition...

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a p...

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It w...

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was p...

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths wove...

The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdere...

The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...

Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a gr...

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when ...

Their message will never be decoded, not only because there is no key to it, but also because people...

Each of us lives with a sword over his head.There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who ...

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied whe...

Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part...

Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as s...

I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadow...

[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for ...

But some, a very come to the gods all on their own They find their way—long and far it is, sometimes...

How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths abou...

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronolog...

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - ...

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powe...

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did ...

If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn...

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.

There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless ...

Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover th...

We hold this myth to be potentialNot self-evident but equationalAnother DimensionOf another kind of ...

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downo...

the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a ...

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining o...

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor...

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction...

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awa...

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental...

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? ...

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his ...