Mythology Quotes

“You are alive in me.”

— Nely Cab

I drag my myth around with me.

— Orson Welles

“Love knows all.”

— Nely Cab

I do love mythology.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I am attracted to myths.

— Tina Turner

I said hello to the poodle.

— Rick Riordan

“Myths have a very long memory.”

— Bryan Sykes

We're separated by our myths.

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Mary Augusta Ward

“Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.”

— Joseph Campbell

“What if it was Persephone who kidnapped Hades...”

— Rainbow Rowell

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

— Eric Bana

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

— Bernard Malamud

“We don’t change our minds. I was led to another path of light.”

— Mary Morgan

I'm very at home working with mythology.

— Tori Amos

I read a lot of Greek mythology and thrillers.

— Akshara Haasan

“That is — your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”

— Madeline Miller

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

— Devdutt Pattanaik

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

— Stephen Sommers

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

— Fred Kaplan

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

— Thomas Bulfinch

I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

— Kamal Haasan

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

— Cyprian

“I want the next goddamn tyrant who tries to burn the past down to choke on the ash.”

— Elijah Stepanovich

Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I…

— Damon Lindelof

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self…

— Susan Sontag

“Charles, if you were here right now, I'd totally kiss you." He chuckled softly. "I get that a lot, but I doubt…

— Laurel Cremant

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

— Walter Burkert

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support…

— Tim Schafer

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

When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of…

— Philipp Meyer

Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

— Hannes Alfven

Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one…

— Dennis McKinsey

“Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread…

— Homer

“I thought you of all people would understand.” “Understand what? Being an idiot?” That seems to surprise him enough to add something…

— Amanda Bouchet

Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to…

— John Cowper Powys

We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming…

— A. C. Dixon

“Standing at the window, reading the menu of Obediah's services, the Minotaur wishes he could believe in what she has to offer:…

— Steven Sherrill

He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane…

— Erin Morgenstern