Mythology Quotes · Page 6

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Childhood was our common mythology.”

— Bia Lowe

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

— James Surowiecki

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

— Karl Rove

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

— Robert Bringhurst

“Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.”

— Vernor Vinge

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

— Anne Rice

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

— Joseph Campbell

“Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear.”

— Nely Cab

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

— Tea Obreht

Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important…

— Tom Cavanagh

“In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.”

— Charleston Parker

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

— William Shatner

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

— Will Durant

Many of the elements associated with storybook mythology and gothic aesthetics are actually not expressive.

— Caroline Polachek

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse,…

— Grant Morrison

In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was…

— Hyman Rickover

“My body lies within the strings and myths of reality with a purpose of evolution and adapted by gravity but for my…

— Ahmed Aziz Ahmed

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology,…

— Baron Vaughn

“It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together,…

— M.C. Sburlea

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing…

— Terry Gross

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was…

— Joan D. Vinge

“But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving…

— Madeline Miller

It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up…

— Todd Haynes

“Marilynn...passed out black cases to everyone. I opened mine to find an iPad inside. Several candidates whistled. Despite my agitated state, it…

— Priya Ardis

Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell…

— Saint Francis de Sales

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we…

— J. Michael Straczynski

“The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the…

— Joseph Campbell

I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Neleus... The son of Poseidon! A birth that came from the mate of a god and a mortal woman. Not plain at…

— Katerina Kostaki

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

— Eric Kripke

“There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.”

— Little Tiger and the Year of the Dragon D. Byron Patterson

“She ran. Deeper, deeper into the mysterious Broceliande forest...”

— Jennifer McKeithen

Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I like mythology - anything historical.

— Cassie Steele

“It was hope that brought me love.”

— Nely Cab