Myth Quotes · Page 20

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

— Cassandra Clare

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

— Margaret Atwood

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

— Jessica Lange

“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

— Alan Watts

“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.”

— Peter Burke

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

— Caryl Rivers

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

— Colin Farrell

If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their…

— Nicholas Meyer

In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches…

— Theodor Adorno

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

— George Steiner

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a…

— George Lucas

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

— Ha-Joon Chang

I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to…

— Will Cuppy

“Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas…

— Robert Trout

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had…

— Neil MacGregor

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,…

— Michael Shermer

Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of…

— Jesmyn Ward

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have…

— Eugene Ionesco

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we…

— John F. Kennedy

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the 20th century, the French managed to get a death on the myth that they produce the world's best food. The…

— Clarissa Dickson Wright

America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects…

— Jedediah Bila

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

— Charles Rangel

In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

— Eva Moskowitz

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with…

— Naomi Klein

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

— Robert Fulghum

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it…

— Steven Conrad

A limit is a myth created by those who are not willing to try new things.

— Anonymous

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

— Jesmyn Ward

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

— Rudolf Bultmann

“Kids are not born sinners, they are born innocent and will become whatever you project to them. Stop projecting sin to them.”

— Chidi Ejeagba

“Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.”

— Marcus Borg

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

— Jeff Smith

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you…

— Suetonius

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

— Nyla Ali Khan

A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in.

— Anonymous