Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally…

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It…

— J. M. Coetzee

“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.”

— S.M. Stirling

Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our…

— Stephen H. Furrer

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

— Christine Downing

The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive…

— William Powell

“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have…

— Steven Weinberg

“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the…

— Lavie Tidhar

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

— David Mitchell

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some…

— James Taylor

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas,…

— Krista Allen

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

— Andre Alexis

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that…

— Anonymous