Myth Quotes

“We are what we myth.”

— William G. Doty

101 no fangs its a myth.

— Jade

I drag my myth around with me.

— Orson Welles

Jackie Chan is a myth.

— Jackie Chan

I am not a myth.

— Marlene Dietrich

In the beginning was the myth.

— Hermann Hesse

We're separated by our myths.

— Hugh Hefner

“Mind of myth sees ghost.”

— Toba Beta

I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.

— Patty Jenkins

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

— Saul Friedlander

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

— Kelly Lynch

“But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart? ”

— Madeline Miller

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

— Henry A. Wallace

Myth is someone else's religion.

— Caroline Llewellyn

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

— Janet Morris

“Myth: Vampires don't exist Truth: Dead wrong.”

— Kimberly Pauley

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

— John Maynard Smith

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

— Sinclair Lewis

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

— Fred Kaplan

“Myth: A stake through the heart will kill a vampire. Truth: Well, duh. It would kill anyone.”

— Kimberly Pauley

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

— Robert Heller

“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be…

— Roland Barthes

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing.…

— Sam Keen

“What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into…

— Walter Burkert

True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use…

— Nomy Lamm

Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every…

— Steven Tyler

I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic…

— Gary Chapman

It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the…

— Doris Lessing

Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact…

— Andy Muschietti

Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,…

— Hannes Alfven

Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.…

— F. F. Bruce

You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how…

— Joseph Campbell

“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because…

— Karl Marx

“Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows…

— Erin Bow

The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same…

— Joseph Campbell

Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has…

— Shmuley Boteach

I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life…

— John Lennon